SELECTED AWARDS

1993	Illinois Academy of Fine Arts: IAFA Awards '93 Nominee
1988	Elected "The 1988 Honoree" to The Hall of Fame, The Pastel Society of America
1985	Popular Vote Award, The Pastel Society of America
1984	The Marie Devor Memorial Award, The Pastel Society of America
1984	Elected a "Master Pastelist", The Pastel Society of America
1984	Knickerbocker Artists' Award
1982	Appointed Honorary Citizen of Nashville, TN
1982	Lever House Award, The Pastel Society of America
1981	“Exceptional Merit”, The Pastel Society of America
1981	Dr. Leonard Cammer Memorial Award, The Pastel Society of America
1979	Board of Directors Award, The Pastel Society of America
1976	“Best Figure” Tiro A. Segno Foundation Award, The Pastel Society of America
1974	Paul Puzinas Memorial Prize for Oil Painting, Allied Artists of America
1966	Minnie R. Stern Medal for Oil Painting, 24^th Annual Exhibition, Audubon Artists
1955	National Exhibition of Advertising & Editorial Art & Design, The Art Directors Club of NYC
1954	National Exhibition of Advertising & Editorial Art & Design, The Art Directors Club of NYC
1948	“Most Creative Painting” Award for Oil, 7^th Annual Exhibition Audubon Artists

The artist with the right background for painting the portrait of Ring Lardner's Champion, page 33, was the thirty-eight-year-old Gustav Rehberger, a former all-around athlete, who, despite his two-hundred-pound physique, is still one of the top-rinking table-tennis players in the country. An added recommendation was one critic's comment that Rehberger is the "Hemingway of painting." This is not to say that all of his subjects have hair on their chests; but his work is notable for t he artist's ability to get down to fundamentals whever the theme. Rehberger tells us that he'd rather paint a storm "than a blond en deshabille" and that when he was a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces his work was shown at the National Galleries of London. Most recent of his prize winners was "Deluge" which took the top award as "most creative painting" in the last annual national Audubon Artists' Exhibition in New York.

1942	Exhibition of Advertising Art, Art Directors Club of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago
1938	Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, IL
1925	Four First Prizes and one Third Prize, Boys Week Exposition at the Navy Pier, Chicago, IL