Awards and Prizes:

1998-Alice Pellington Award: Hudson Valley Art Association
1998-Aldro Hibbard Award: North Shore Art Association
1998-National Park Academy of the Arts: Top 100 U.S Paintings
1998-Elliot Luskin Memorial Award: Rockport Art Association
1999-Vasari Award: Academic Artist Association
2000-Grumbacher Gold Medal: Academic Art Association
2000-Emile Gruppe Award: North Shore Art Association
2000-National Park Academy of the Arts: Top 100 U.S. Paintings
2000-Founders Favorite Award: National Park Academy of the Arts
2000-Claude Parson Memorial Award: The American Artists Professional League
2001-Edmund F. Ward Award: Hudson Valley Art Association
2001-Lester Stevens Memorial Award: North Shore Art Association
2001-Claude Parson Memorial Award: The American Artists Professional League
2002-Painting accepted by The Butler Institute of American Art for permanent collection
2002-National Park Acedemy of the Arts: Top 100 U.S. Paintings
2003-Amee B. Davis Memorial Award: Rockport Art Association
2004-Alden Bryant Memorial Award: North Shore Art Association
2005-Isabel Steinschneider Award: Hudson Valley Art Association
2005-Antonio Cirino Memorial Award(First Place)" Rockport Art Association
2005-William Lester Stevens Memorial Award: North shore Art Association
2005-Samuel Armour Memorial Award: Academic Artists Association
2005-Margurite Pearson Gold Medal: Rockport Art Association
2006-Virgina Karl Memorial Award: Rockport Art Association
2006-Guild of Boston Artist Award: North Shore Art Association
2006-New England Heritage Award: Academic Artists Association
2006-Philip Shumaker Award(Marine): Hudson Valley Art Association
2006-Alden Bryant Memorial Award: Rockport Art Association
2007-Antonio Cirino Memorial Award(First Place): Rockport Art Association
2007-Guild of Boston Award: North Shore Art Association
2007-New England Heritage Award: Academic Artists Association
2007-Alden Bryant Memorial Award(First Place): North Shore Art Association
2007-Amee B. Davis Memorial Award: Rockport Art Association
2007-Garie and Ken Perry award: Rockport Art Association
2008-Academic Artists Award: Academic Artists Association
2008-George Read Barton Memorial Award: Hudson Valley Art Association

Information submitted by Dennis Louwers of Dennis and Natalie Louwers Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine

Michael Graves is from New England. He was a student of Bernard Corey, a plein-air painter. Graves paints in the style of the Cape Ann School. His images are often scenes of Maine, Vermont, and other picturesque New England countryside scenes.

In the past twelve months (2005), Graves has been accepted to the permanent collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, and was selected for the top 100 Arts for the Parks exhibit.

EXHIBITIONS :
Academic Artists Association 1985
Blackstone Valley Art Association 1987
North Shore Art Association 1988
Rockport Art Association 1992
Salmagundi Club
Knickerbocker Art Association
Hudson Valley Art Association
Academic Artists National Exhibit
Allied Artists of America.

PUBLICATIONS
American Artist : cover and feature article February 1988. The Best of Oil Painting. Juried by Tom Nicholas and John Terlelak. Rockport Publishers, Inc.

AWARDS/PRIZES

Towne Gallery Award 1985;
Bernard Corey Special Award from Blackstone Valley Art Association 1987;
Elsie Reinert Memorial Award 1988 (North Shore Art Association);
Arnold Banning Award 1989, 1990 (Blackstone Valley Art Association);
Frank Van Steen Memorial Award 1989 (Hudson Valley Art Association);
Guild of Boston Artists 1989;
American Artist Magazine Award 1990;
Maurice E. Goldberg Memorial Award 1990 (Rockport Art Association);
Harry Ballinger Award 1992 (Rockport Art Association);
Eastern Container Corporation Award 1993;
John L. Cooley Memorial Award 1994 (Rockport Art Association);
National Park Academy of the Arts ;
One of top 100 United States Paintings 1994;
Grumbacher Gold Medal 1995 (Salmagundi Club);
Allied Artists of America Silver Medal 1995;
Art Students League 1996;
Florence Lonsford Award 1996;
Helen VanWyk Memorial Medal 1996;
Elliot Luskin Memorial Award 1996;
Lee M.Loeb Memorial Award 1997;
Best of Show : Images of Blackstone Waterways 1997 (Massachusetts Audubon Society);
Marine Art Award 1998 (National Park Academy of the Arts).