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Philadelphia Inquirer - January 27, 2010

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Jack Wolgin, the Philadelphia developer, banker and philanthropist whose $3.7 million gift to Temple's Tyler School of Art established the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, died on Jan. 26. The competition's $150,000 cash award is the largest juried arts prize awarded by a university to an individual fine artist. "He was very courageous in the decisions that he made artistically and wasn't afraid to be in the avant-garde," said Terry Dolan, former interim dean at Tyler. That was borne out, she said, in his insistence that the prize reward an artist "whose work transcends traditional boundaries and exemplifies the highest level of artistic excellence."