American art award
TwoAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals
Belles Lettres and Criticism, and Painting; Biography and Music; Fiction and Sculpture; History and Architecture, including Landscape Architecture; Poetry and Music; Drama and Graphic Art. The Academy voted in 1915 to establish an additional Gold Medal for "special distinction" to be given for the entire work of the recipient who is not a member of the academy.[ 1] Charles Eliot .[ 2]
Awards in individual categories are listed below (in alphabetical order) followed by a list of all prizes in reverse chronological order:Source:[ 3]
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1909 –Augustus Saint-Gaudens , Sculpture[ 16] 1910 –James Ford Rhodes , History 1911 –James Whitcomb Riley , Poetry 1912 –William Rutherford Mead , Architecture[ 4] 1913 –Augustus Thomas , Drama[ 7] 1914 –John Singer Sargent , Painting 1915 –William Dean Howells , Fiction[ 9] 1916 –Charles William Eliot , Fiction[ 2] 1916 –John Burroughs , Belles Lettres 1917 –Daniel Chester French , Sculpture 1918 –William Roscoe Thayer , History 1919 –Charles Martin Loeffler , Music 1921 –Cass Gilbert , Architecture 1922 –Eugene O'Neill , Drama 1923 –Edwin Howland Blashfield , Painting 1924 –Edith Wharton , Fiction 1925 –William Crary Brownell , Belles Lettres 1926 –Herbert Adams , Sculpture 1927 –William M. Sloane , History 1928 –George W. Chadwick , Music 1929 –Edwin Arlington Robinson , Poetry 1930 –Anna Hyatt Huntington , Sculpture 1930 –Charles Adams Platt , Architecture 1931 –William Gillette , Drama 1932 –Gari Melchers , Painting 1933 –Booth Tarkington , Fiction 1935 –Agnes Repplier , Belles Lettres 1936 –George Grey Barnard , Sculpture 1937 –Charles M. Andrews , History 1938 –Walter Damrosch , Music 1939 –Robert Frost , Poetry 1940 –William Adams Delano , Architecture 1941 –Robert E. Sherwood , Drama 1942 –Cecilia Beaux , Painting 1943 –Stephen Vincent Benét , Literature 1944 –Willa Cather , Fiction 1945 –Paul Manship , Sculpture 1946 –Van Wyck Brooks , Essays 1947 –John Alden Carpenter , Music 1948 –Charles Austin Beard , History 1949 –Frederick Law Olmsted , Architecture 1950 –H. L. Mencken , Essays 1950 –John Sloan , Painting 1951 –Igor Stravinsky , Music 1951 –James Earle Fraser , Sculpture 1952 –Carl Sandburg , History 1952 –Thornton Wilder , Fiction 1953 –Frank Lloyd Wright , Architecture 1953 –Marianne Moore , Poetry 1954 –Maxwell Anderson , Drama 1954 –Reginald Marsh , Graphic Art 1955 –Edmund Wilson , Essays 1955 –Edward Hopper , Painting 1956 –Aaron Copland , Music 1956 –Ivan Meštrović , Sculpture 1957 –Allan Nevins , History 1957 –John Dos Passos , Fiction 1958 –Conrad Aiken , Poetry 1958 –Henry R. Shepley , Architecture 1959 –Arthur Miller , Drama 1959 –George Grosz , Graphic Art 1960 –Charles E. Burchfield , Painting 1960 –E. B. White , Essays 1961 –Roger H. Sessions , Music 1961 –William Zorach , Sculpture 1962 –Samuel Eliot Morison , History 1962 –William Faulkner , Fiction 1963 –Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Architecture 1963 –William Carlos Williams , Poetry 1964 –Ben Shahn , Graphic Art 1964 –Lillian Hellman , Drama 1965 –Walter Lippmann , Essays 1965 –Wyeth , Painting 1966 –Jacques Lipchitz , Sculpture 1966 –Virgil Thomson , Music 1967 –Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. , History 1967 –Katherine Anne Porter , Fiction 1968 –R. Buckminster Fuller , Architecture 1968 –W. H. Auden , Poetry 1969 –Leonard Baskin , Graphic Art 1969 –Tennessee Williams , Drama 1970 –Georgia O'Keeffe , Painting 1970 –Lewis Mumford , Belles Lettres 1971 –Alexander Calder , Sculpture 1971 –Elliott Carter , Music 1972 –Eudora Welty , Novel 1972 –Henry Steele Commager , History 1973 –John Crowe Ransom , Poetry 1973 –Louis I. Kahn , Architecture 1974 –Saul Steinberg , Graphic Art 1975 –Kenneth Burke , Belles Lettres 1975 –Willem de Kooning , Painting 1976 –Leon Edel , Biography 1976 –Samuel Barber , Music 1977 –Isamu Noguchi , Sculpture 1977 –Saul Bellow , Novel 1978 –Barbara W. Tuchman , History 1978 –Peter Taylor , Short Story 1979 –Archibald MacLeish , Poetry 1979 –I. M. Pei , Architecture 1980 –Edward Albee , Drama 1980 –Peggy Bacon , Graphic Art 1981 –Malcolm Cowley , Belles Lettres 1981 –Raphael Soyer , Painting 1982 –Francis Steegmuller , Biography 1982 –William Schuman , Music 1983 –Bernard Malamud , Fiction 1983 –Louise Nevelson , Sculpture 1984 –George F. Kennan , History 1984 –Gordon Bunshaft , Architecture 1985 –Leonard Bernstein , Music 1985 –Robert Penn Warren , Poetry 1986 –Jasper Johns , Graphic Art 1986 –Sidney Kingsley , Drama 1987 –Isabel Bishop , Painting 1987 –Jacques Barzun , Belles Lettres 1988 –James Thomas Flexner , Biography 1988 –Milton Babbitt , Music 1989 –Isaac Bashevis Singer , Fiction 1989 –Louise Bourgeois , Sculpture 1990 –C. Vann Woodward , History 1991 –David Diamond , Music 1991 –Richard Wilbur , Poetry 1992 –David Levine , Graphic Art 1992 –Sam Shepard , Drama 1993 –Elizabeth Hardwick , Belles Lettres/Criticism 1993 –Richard Diebenkorn , Painting 1994 –Hugo Weisgall , Music 1994 –Walter Jackson Bate , Biography 1995 –George Rickey , Sculpture 1995 –William Maxwell , Fiction 1996 –Peter Gay , History 1996 –Philip Johnson , Architecture 1997 –Gunther Schuller , Music 1997 –John Ashbery , Poetry 1998 –Frank Stella , Graphic Art 1998 –Horton Foote , Drama 1999 –Harold Bloom , Belles Lettres 1999 –Kevin Roche , Architecture 1999 –Robert Rauschenberg , Painting 2000 –Lukas Foss , Music 2000 –R. W. B. Lewis , Biography 2001 –Richard Meier , Graphic Art 2001 –Philip Roth , Fiction 2001 –Richard Serra , Sculpture 2002 –Frank O. Gehry , Architecture 2002 –John Hope Franklin , History 2003 –Ned Rorem , Music[ 12] 2003 –W. S. Merwin , Poetry[ 12] 2004 –Chuck Close , Graphic Art 2004 –John Guare , Drama 2005 –Jane Freilicher , Painting 2005 –Joan Didion , Belles Lettres and Criticism[ 6] 2006 –Robert Caro , Biography 2006 –Stephen Sondheim , Music 2007 –John Updike , Fiction[ 10] 2007 –Martin Puryear , Sculpture[ 10] 2008 –Edmund S. Morgan , History[ 5] 2008 –Richard Meier , Architecture[ 5] 2009 –Leon Kirchner , Music 2009 –Mark Strand , Poetry 2010 –Ed Ruscha , Graphic Art 2010 –Romulus Linney , Drama 2010 –Toni Morrison , Belles Lettres and Criticism 2011 –Cy Twombly , Painting 2011 –Eric Bentley , Belles Lettres and Criticism 2012 –David McCullough , Biography 2012 –Steve Reich , Music 2013 –E. L. Doctorow , Fiction 2013 –Mark di Suvero , Sculpture 2014 –Henry N. Cobb , Architecture 2014 –Natalie Zemon Davis , History 2015 –George Crumb , Music 2015 –Louise Gluck , Poetry 2016 –Vija Celmins , Graphic Art 2016 –Wallace Shawn , Drama 2017 –Janet Malcolm , Belles Lettres and Criticism 2017 –Wayne Thiebaud , Painting 2018 –Ron Chernow , Biography 2018 –John Adams , Music 2019 –Lee Bontecou , Sculpture 2019 –Toni Morrison , Literature 2020 –David W. Blight , Literature 2020 –Peter Eisenman , Architecture 2021 –Rita Dove , Poetry 2021 –Yehudi Wyner , Music 2022 –Adrienne Kennedy , Drama 2022 –Kara Walker , Graphic art 2023 –Helen Hennessy Vendler , Belles Lettres and Criticism 2023 –Faith Ringgold , Painting 2024 –Laurie Anderson , Music 2024 –Doris Kearns Goodwin , Biography ^ "Mr. Howells and Dr. Eliot," New York Times. November 21, 1915.^a b "Gold Medal for Dr. Eliot; President Emeritus of Harvard Honored by American Academy of Arts," New York Times. November 21, 1915;"Gold Medal for Dr. Eliot; American Academy Honors Educator's Work for Literature," New York Times. January 28, 1916.^ American Academy of Arts and Letters."American Academy of Arts and Letters - Awards List" . Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. RetrievedOctober 5, 2013 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link ) ^a b "National Institute Honors W.R. Mead; Its Gold Medal Awarded to Noted Architect at the Annual Dinner," New York Times. December 13, 1912.^a b c d van Gelder, Lawrence."Arts, Briefly: American Academy Picks Caro and Trillin," New York Times. April 17, 2008. ^a b van Gelder, Lawrence."Arts, Briefly: American Academy Honors," New York Times. May 19, 2005. ^a b "Thomas Visits Mother; Playwright Shows Her the Medal Presented to Him by Academy," New York Times. November 17, 1913.^a b "The American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors Adrienne Kennedy, Kara Walker, Anna Deavere Smith, Edwin Frank, Phillip Lopate – American Academy of Arts and Letters" .American Academy of Arts and Letters . March 15, 2022. RetrievedJune 22, 2022 .^a b "National Institute Honors Howells; His Letter, Thanking It for Gold Medal, Says Fashion in Novels Has Changed," New York Times. November 20, 1915.^a b c d van Gelder, Lawrence."Arts, Briefly: American Academy Honors," New York Times. May 17, 2007. ^ Fedor, Ashley."American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2025 Highest Honors" , American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 27, 2025. ^a b c d van Gelder, Lawrence."Arts Briefing: American Academy Honors," New York Times. May 19, 2003. ^ 2015 Gold Medals in Music Archived October 13, 2008, at theWayback Machine ^ "Yehudi Wyner, Rita Dove, and Phong Bui Receive Highest Honors – American Academy of Arts and Letters" .^ "Yehudi Wyner, Rita Dove, and Phong Bui Receive Highest Honors – American Academy of Arts and Letters" .^a b "Men of Letters Honor St. Gaudens; First Gold Medal of Their Institute Is a Tribute to Memory of the Dead Sculptor. Given to Mrs. St. Gaudens; Notable Men at Ceremonial Where Dr. Van Dyke Makes Principal Address – Letter from President," New York Times. November 21, 1909.^ "Gold Medal" .artsandletters.org . RetrievedApril 25, 2020 .
