Temple Gold Medal medal recipient. A silver medal would have been awarded to William B. T. Trego for "The March to Valley Forge", but he refused to accept it. Trego argued that if only one Temple medal was awarded it should be a gold, not a silver (which implied second place). Trego sued PAFA to be named the gold medal winner and claim the cash prize. After losing in a Philadelphia court, he took his appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which concurred with the lower court's ruling that PAFA's art jury had the right to issue awards as it saw fit. After
A. A. Raiba with glass, composing a singular image three-dimensionally by placing differently drawn layers of glass together. AA Raiba, is 86, reflecting back on his practice he says, that decades have passed but his work remains unfinished. " Itni Umar gayi, Kam khatam nahi hua"(In Urdu – " So many years have passed, I am old, yet my practice remains unfinished.") – AA Raiba 1947 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1947 Bronze Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1947 Awarded The Late Rao Bahadur S.V. Rajadhyaksha Memorial Prize, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1951 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1952 Awarded Sheth