Golden Brush Award

Tue., Dec. 31, 1996

The Spokesman-Review is pleased to announce a new award to honor readers who contribute to our Roundtable Page.

Our Golden Pen Award honors letter writers, but because it is difficult to compare words with images we have created the Golden Brush Award for readers who express their opinions with art, through our Your View feature.

Staff artist Charles Waltmire, who edits Your View, will choose a winner every three months. To kick off the new award he is choosing one winner from the best work of 1996.

“It was hard,” Waltmire says, “to choose from a selection that included great work like Charles Castleman’s elegant cartoons, Jack Bratten’s razor-sharp commentary, Carol Davis’ charming observations, or Bob Garret’s north Idaho perspectives. Great contributions from Mike Carroll, Maury Cain, Carlos Vigil, Randy Bisson, William DeFrate, Sam Stitt, Mike Alsperger and Robert Bissett also brightened our page last year.

“But the winner of our first Golden Brush Award goes to the same man who gave us our very first Your View entry: Tadashi Osborne. Tadashi forgave us for losing that first submission, and he has responded with a body of work that best fulfills the goal we had when we started this feature. His work is timely, based in local issues, often humorous and always very beautifully drawn.

The winning art pictured here was one of several by Osborne that could have won.

Congratulations, Tadashi, and we look forward to more of your visual commentary in the future. Thanks to everyone who has responded, and I can’t wait to see what you will send me next year.”

Tadashi, and subsequent winners of the Golden Brush, will receive a Raphael artist’s travel brush.

, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Illustration by Tadashi Osborne/Spokane

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