Awards

(recent, selected) For a list of all previous awards, please contact support@loriputnam.com.

2024

• Landscape Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional

• Best Use of Light and Color, National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society

• Western Art and Architecture Award of Excellence, American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Awarded by Carolyn Anderson

• Distinguished Achievement Award, American Women Artists, Expanding Horizons Juried Show

2023

• First Place, Signature Member Award, American Impressionist Society Online Exhibition

• Silver Award, Art in the Open Festival

• Alden Bryan Memorial Prize, Salmagundi Club New York 193rd Annual Members’ Show

2022

• Second Place, Pause apre-midi, American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Awarded by Huihan Liu

• Art of the West Award, American Women Artists, Breaking Through: The Rise of Women Artists, Awarded by Terri Jordan, Jim Hoobler, and Susan Tinney.

• Best Architecture Award, Paint the Town, Dickson

2021

• Best Cityscape, Pause apre-midi, Oil Painters of America Salon, Awarded by Charles Young Walls

• $15,000 Grand Prize, Safe Harbor, Plein air Salon 10th Annual Awards

• People’s Choice, Headin’ Home, Plein air Salon 10th Annual Award

•  3rd Place, Safe Harbor, American Women Artists’ Spring Online Showcase

•  3rd Place, Safe Harbor, January Bold Brush Competition

2020

• Sicilian Roots: NOAPS 2020 Spring International Online Exhibition, Best Use of Light and Color awarded by Del-Bourre Bach

• Summer Cut, First Place Best Floral, Plein air Salon, awarded by Diane Waterhouse

• Merit Award, NOAPS Fall Online Showcase, awarded by Larry DeGraff

• 1st Place Overall, Safe Harbor, October Plein air Salon Competition, awarded by Karen Hewitt

• 1st Place Overall, Safe Harbor, November Plein air Salon Competition, awarded by Cynthia McBride

2019

• Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Material Certificate, Salmagundi Club Annual Members’ Exhibition

2018

• Award of Merit, American Impressionist Society, Awarded by Dawn Whitelaw

• National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Small Paintings Exhibition, Award of Excellence, Awarded by Dawn Whitelaw

• Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Kaanapali Land Management Corp Award

2017

• Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, Finalist, Still Life

• Art Muse Contest Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Stanka Kordic

• Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 4th Place, Landscape

2016

• American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition 2016, Plein Air Magazine Award of Excellence, Awarded by Calvin Liang

• Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Terry Miura

• Artists' Choice Best of Show Award for Permanent Collection, Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational

• Forgotten Coast en Plein air 2016 , Third Place, Quick Draw, Awarded by Jean Stern

• Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Greg LaRock

• All Along the Sierra Exhibition, First Place, Awarded by Carrie Brewster

• Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Irvine Museum Award, Awarded by Jean Stern

• Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Ken DeWaard

2015

• BoldBrush Competition, FineArtStudioOnline, 3rd Place, Awarded by Eric Bowman

• Plein air Salon, Best Landscape, Dec/Jan, Awarded by Gary Haynes

• Oil Painters of America, Fall Online Showcase, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Kevin Beilfuss

• Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 5th Place, Landscape

• Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 4th Honorable Mention, Still Life

• Judge, Door County Plein air Invitational, Door County, WI

• Oil Painters of America Summer Online Showcase, 3rd Place, September 2015, Awarded by Kathy Anderson

• Plein Air Salon, Best Depiction of Water, April/May 2015, Awarded by David Leadman

• Oil Painters of America Spring Online Showcase, Honorable Mention, 2015, Awarded by Elizabeth Pollie,

• Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, High Museum Judge's Award, Awarded by Ken Brenneman, April 2015

• Plein Air Magazine Salon, Honorable Mention Annual Awards, 2014

• Plein Air Salon, Plein Air to Studio Award, Best Buildings Awarded by Ken Auster, Dec/Jan 2015

2014

• Oil Painters of America Salon Showcase, Fall, 2nd Place, Awarded by Dan Beck.

• Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, Still Life Category Honorable Mention

• Plein air Magazine Salon, Best Nocturne, October

• Judge, Southern Appalachian Artist Guild National Exhibition, Blue Ridge, GA

• Laguna Plein air Painters Invitational, Randy Higbee Gallery Award

• American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Denver, CO, Third Place, Awarded by Clayton J. Beck, III

• Crested Butte Plein air Invitational, Crested Butte, CO

• Judge, Fingerlakes Plein air Competition, Canandaigua, NY

• Florida's Forgotten Coast Plein air, Honorable Mention, Quick Draw, Apalachicola, FL

• Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, Bennington, VT

• Plein air Magazine Salon, Honorable Mention, Annual Final

2013

• Raymar Art Finalist, Awarded by Stephen M. Doherty

• Oil Painters of America Online Showcase, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Greg Scheibel

• Sedona Plein air Festival, Award of Merit, Awarded by Jill Carver

• Art in the Open Plein air, Honorable Mention, Quick Draw, Wexford, Ireland

• Oil Painters of America Fall Salon,Crooked-Tree Arts Center, Petosky,MI

• Modern Impressionists, Lori Putnam and Murat Kaboulov, two-man exhibition, LeQuire Gallery, Nashville, TN

• Plein air Magazine Salon, Best Floral, Awarded by Skip Whitcomb

• Cumberland Society of Painters, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Peggi Kroll-Roberts

• American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Charleston, SC

• Plein air Artists of Colorado, Second Place, Awarded by Wm. Scott Jennings

• Raymar Art Finalist, Awarded by Qiang Huang

• Laguna Plein air Painters Association, Best of Plein air, First Place, Awarded by Jean Stern

• Richmond Plein air Festival, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Steven Doherty

• Richmond Plein air Festival, Fast and Fresh, Second Place, Awarded by Steven Doherty

• Oil Painters of America National Juried Salon, Impressionist Award of Excellence, Awarded by Thom Robinson

• Oil Painters of America 22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Most Original, Award of Excellence, Awarded by Sherrie McGraw

• Laguna Plein air Painters Association, Less is More Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

• Forgotten Coast Plein air Invitational, Apalachicola, FL

• Portrait Society of America's International Member's Only Exhibition: Landscape Division, Honorable Mention

• Judge, Women Painters of the Southeast National Juried Exhibition, Franklin, TN

• Judge, Easels of Frederick, MD

2012

• Bold Brush Competition, Finalist, Awarded by David Cheifetz, December

• Salmagundi Club New York City, Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, Certificate of Merit

• Richmond Plein Air Festival, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Everette Raymond Kinstler

• Los Gatos Plein Air Festival, Best of Show, Awarded by Bob Gerbracht

• Plein air Easton, Juried Plein air Festival, Easton, MD

• American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Vice President, Indianapolis, IN

• Forgotten Coast Plein air Invitational, Apalachicola, FL

• Plein Air Artists of Colorado National Juried Exhibition, 1st Place Signature Member, Awarded by Joe Anna Arnett

• Women Painters of the Southeast, Judge's Choice, Awarded by Barbara Flowers

• Art in the Open, Wexford Ireland, Honorable Mention, Quick Draw, Wexford, Ireland

• Judge, Ohio Plein air Painters Association Paintout

• Juror, Judge, and Foreman, 88th Annual Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, IN

2011

• Art in the Open, Wexford Ireland, Honorable Mention, Quick Draw, Wexford, Ireland

• Los Gatos Plein Air Festival, Artists' Choice Award, CA

• Florida's Forgotten Coast Plein air Invitational, Honorable Mention, Quick Draw, Apalachicola, FL

• Callaway Gardens Plein Air Festival, First Place Quick Draw, Georgia, Awarded by Jean Stern

• American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Show Chair, Carmel, CA

• Plein air Painters of the Southeast, Exhibition, Huntsville Museum of Art, AL

• Randy Higbee, 6x6 Squared Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

• Juror and Judge for Memphis Germantown Art League National Exhibition

• Plein air Artists of Colorado National Juried Exhibition, Denver, CO

• Juror and Judge, 87th Annual Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, IN

For a list of awards prior to 2011, contact lori@loriputnam.com.