November 12, 2005
All-Time National Medal of Arts Awardees
Picking up where Tyler left off (and picking up a couple he seems to have missed), a complete accounting of visual artists awarded with our National Medal of Arts (per the official list)...
2004: Frederick Hart (sculptor), John Ruthven (wildlife artist)
2002: Al Hirschfeld (artist, illustrator)
2001: Helen Frankenthaler (painter)
2000: Chuck Close (painter), Claes Oldenburg (sculptor)
1999: George Segal (sculptor)
1998: Agnes Martin (visual artist)
1995: Roy Lichtenstein (painter, sculptor)
1994: Wayne Thiebaud (artist, teacher)
1993: Robert Rauschenberg (artist)
1992: Allan Houser (sculptor)
1991: Richard Diebenkorn (painter)
1990: Jasper Johns (painter, sculptor), Jacob Lawrence (painter)
1989: Alfred Eisenstaedt (photographer), Walker Kirtland Hancock (sculptor), Robert Motherwell (painter)
1987: Romare Bearden (painter), Isamu Noguchi (sculptor)
1986: Willem de Kooning (painter)
1985: Louise Nevelson (sculptress), Georgia O'Keeffe (painter)
(Frank Stella was among a number of artists honored and presented with medals by Ronald Reagan in 1983, before the official establishment of the medal.)
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