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New Salem Museum International Painting Competition
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New Salem Museum International Painting Competition

New Salem Museum

February 15, 2026New Salem, Massachusetts, USA

This competition focuses on contemporary realism and offers one of the largest single acquisition awards available, ensuring the winning work enters a permanent museum collection.

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$35,000 acquisition award (museum purchases the work), $2,500 Director's Choice award, and exhibition at the New Salem Museum.

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International. Oil, acrylic, watercolor painting. Style must be contemporary realism/representational.

Dates & details

Programme dates
Exhibition: May 13 to August 16, 2026
Language
No specific requirement
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$35,000 (Acquisition Award)
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$50 for one entry

Results of this call · 2026

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  • 1winner
  • 1honourable mention
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1,600 applied · 2 won

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