Prix de Rome

As few U. S. art students have any money, the $4,000 signs on the annual Prix de Rome shine like a rainbow. There are four such prizes--in painting, sculpture, architecture, landscaping. Each means two years at the American Academy in Rome. Competitors must be bachelors under 30, winners must promise not to marry until their two years are up. Since 1926 Yale's School of Fine Arts has had something of a corner on the Rome prizes, especially in painting and sculpture.

Last week the sculpture prize 'went to John Amore of New York City, a 25-year-old professional who was trained at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners:

Painting: Clifford Edgar Jones of Kokomo, Ind., a student at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis. He brought his school its first Prix de Rome for Carnival, a lively, crowded circus scene.

Architecture: Richard Gardner Hartshorne Jr. kept up Yale's record with his winning plan for an art museum.

Landscape Architecture: "John Finley Kirkpatrick of Cornell's School of Architecture. Cincinnati's Kirkpatrick, who will be made a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture next month, developed a hypothetical wasteland into a well-shrubbed residential district in his winning design.

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