of these things Júlíana benefitted. From 1941 to 1949 she was on the board of the Charlottenborg Exhibition, and in 1955 she was elected to the board of the Danish Royal Academy of Art: neither of these had had any female board members when the KKS had been founded. She also benefited from access to grants, including the Tagea Brandt travel stipend in 1946. Textile art Working in Copenhagen Júlíana created abstract rug designs of note, including a piece which won the Gold Medal at the Italian Triennial in Milan, in 1951, the first design award won by an Icelander in an international exhibition. Júlíana Sveinsdóttir was later commissioned by the Danish State Artwork Fund to create a rug that decorated the court chamber of the Supreme Court in Copenhagen. Although her textile works were remarkable and attracted international acclaim, they went largely ignored in her home country for some decades, where only her paintings drew attention and reviews. It was not until the 1950s, and following the Triennial win, that there was finally in her own country a recognition of their importance and artistic merit. Legacy Throughout her career, while she did paint still lives and portraits, it was Júlíana Sveinsdóttir's landscapes that aroused critical admiration and won awards, including the prestigious Eckersberg Medal in 1947. She is regarded as having been a significant innovator from the 1930s to the 1950s through her approach to the landscape subject and her colour palette. Júlíana Sveinsdóttir was one of a number of Icelandic artists the impersonation of whose work was the subject of a 2005 court case. The craters of Mercury are named after artists. Following the first Mercury fly-by of NASA spacecraft MESSENGER, one of the newly discovered craters was named after Júlíana Sveinsdóttir. Awards 1946: Tagea Brandt travel stipend 1947: Eckersberg Medal 1951: Gold Medal, Italian Triennial, Milan References Reading Audur Ólafsdóttir, 'Júlíana Sveinsdóttir', in Ólafur Kvaran and Karla Kristjánsdóttir (eds), Confronting Nature: Icelandic Art of the 20th Century, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, 2001, p. 78. Hrafnhildur Schram, Dagny Heiddal and Harpa Thórsdóttir, Patterns of Land and Colour: Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavík, 2003. Landscape artists 1889 births 1966 deaths Textile artists Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Icelandic women painters Juliana Sveinsdottir Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal Juliana Sveinsdottir 20th-century Icelandic women artists 20th-century women textile artists 20th-century textile artists