Prix de Rome

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Scores of U. S. citizens under 30 years of age submit, each year, their best work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan.

When the judges awarded the painting and sculpture scholarships for 1927, each of the winners was found to be a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts (TIME, May 16).

In architecture, too, the scholarship went to a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts (TIME, June 13).

Last week the scholarship in landscape design was awarded to a man weighing 150 pounds, who played centre on the Cornell University football eleven, who was highest in scholastic standing in the 1927 class at Cornell College of Architecture. His name: Michael Rapuano, 23, of Syracuse, N. Y. His landscape design for a museum of fine arts in a municipal park was the best of the 1927 competition.