Abbott, George Francis - actor, playwright, producer, director (1990) |
Abravanel, Maurice - music director, conductor (1991) |
Acuff, Roy - country singer, bandleader (1991) |
Adler, Leopold - preservationist, civic leader (1989) |
Albanese, Licia - opera singer (1995) |
Albee, Edward - playwright (1996) |
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation - modern dance company and school (2001) |
Anaya, Rudolfo - writer (2001) |
Anderson, Marian - opera singer (1986) |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - philanthropic foundation (2004) |
Angelou, Maya - poet, writer (2000) |
Annenberg, Walter and Leonore - arts patrons (1993) |
Arnold, Eddy - country singer (2000) |
Astor, Brooke (Mrs. Vincent) - arts patron (1988) |
AT&T - corporate arts patron (1992) |
Auchincloss, Louis - author (2005) |
Austin City Limits - PBS television program (2003) |
Baryshnikov, Mikhail - dancer, director (2000) |
Bassett, Florence Knoll - architect (2002) |
Bearden, Romare - painter (1987) |
Belafonte, Harry - singer, actor (1994) |
Bellow, Saul - writer (1988) |
Belluschi, Pietro - architect (1991) |
Bolcom, William - classical composer (2006) |
Bourgeois, Louise - sculptor (1997) |
Boys Choir of Harlem - performing arts youth group (1996) |
Bradbury, Ray - author (2004) |
Brooks, Gwendolyn - poet (1995) |
Brown, Denise Scott - architect (1992) |
Brown, J. Carter - museum director (1991) |
Brown, Trisha - artistic director, choreographer, dancer (2002) |
Brubeck, Dave - pianist, bandleader, composer (1994) |
Caldwell, Sarah - opera conductor (1996) |
Callahan, Harry - photographer (1996) |
Calloway, Cabell "Cab" - singer, bandleader (1993) |
Cantor, B. Gerald and Iris - arts patrons (1995) |
Capra, Frank - film director (1986) |
Carter, Benny - jazz musician (2000) |
Carter, Betty - jazz vocalist (1997) |
Carter, Jr., Elliott - composer (1985) |
Cash, Johnny - singer, songwriter (2001) |
Chandler, Dorothy Buffum - arts patron (1985) |
Charisse, Cyd - dancer (2006) |
Charles, Ray - singer, musician (1993) |
Cleary, Beverly - writer (2003) |
Close, Chuck - painter (2000) |
Coles, Charles "Honi" - tap dancer (1991) |
Copland, Aaron - composer (1986) |
Cronyn, Hume - actor, director (1990) |
Crosby, John O. - opera director, conductor, administrator (1991) |
Cruz, Celia - singer (1994) |
Cunningham, Merce - choreographer, dance company director (1990) |
d'Amboise, Jacques - dancer, choreographer, educator (1998) |
D'Rivera, Paquito - jazz musician,
composer, writer (2005) |
Davis, Ossie - actor (1995) |
Dayton Hudson Corporation - corporate arts patron (1989) |
DeCarava, Roy R. - photographer (2006) |
de Kooning, Willem - painter (1986) |
de Menil, Dominique - arts patron (1986) |
de Mille, Agnes - choreographer (1986) |
de Montebello, Philippe - museum director (2002) |
Dee, Ruby - actor (1995) |
de Havilland, Olivia - actress (2008) |
DeLay, Dorothy - violin teacher (1994) |
DePreist , James - symphony orchestra conductor (2005) |
Diamond, David - composer (1995) |
Diamond, Irene - arts patron (1999) |
Diebenkorn, Richard - painter (1991) |
Domino, Antoine "Fats" - rock 'n' roll pianist, singer (1998) |
Douglas, Kirk - actor, producer (2001) |
Dunham, Katherine - dancer, choreographer (1989) |
Duvall, Robert - actor (2005) |
Eisenstaedt, Alfred - photographer (1989) |
Elliott, Ramblin' Jack - folk singer, songwriter (1998) |
Ellison, Ralph (Waldo) - writer (1985) |
Esquith, Rafe - arts educator (2003) |
Exxon Corporation - corporate arts patron (1986) |
Farrell, Suzanne - dancer, choreographer, company director, educator (2003) |
Ferrer, Jose - actor (1985) |
Fichandler, Zelda - theater director, founder (1996) |
Fisher, J. W. - arts patron (1987) |
Fisk Jubilee Singers - choral ensemble (2008) |
Fitzgerald, Ella - singer (1987) |
Floyd, Carlisle - opera composer (2004) |
Foote, Horton - playwright, screenwriter (2000) |
Fordķs Theatre Society - theater and museum (2008) |
Frankenthaler, Helen - painter (2001) |
Franklin, Aretha - singer (1999) |
Freed, James Ingo - architect (1995) |
Freedberg, Sydney J. - art historian, curator (1988) |
Friedman, Martin - museum director (1989) |
Garment, Leonard - arts patron and advocate (2005) |
Gehry, Frank - architect (1998) |
Gerdine, Leigh - arts patron, civic leader (1989) |
Gillespie, John Birks "Dizzy" - jazz trumpeter (1989) |
Goelet, Francis - music patron (1988) |
Graham, Martha - dancer, choreographer (1985) |
Graves, Michael - architect, designer (1999) |
Guerrero, Eduardo "Lalo" - composer, musician (1996) |
Gund, Agnes - arts patron (1997) |
Guy, Buddy - blues musician (2003) |
Hagen, Uta - actress, drama teacher (2002) |
Hallmark Card, Inc. - corporate arts patron (1985) |
Halprin, Lawrence - landscape architect (2002) |
Hammer, Dr. Armand - arts patron (1987) |
Hampton, Lionel - musician, bandleader (1996) |
Hancock, Walker Kirtland - sculptor (1989) |
Handman, Barbara - arts advocate (1998) |
Hanes, Jr., R. Philip - arts patron (1991) |
Harris, Julie - actress (1994) |
Hart, Frederick - sculptor (2004) |
Hart, Kitty Carlisle - actress, singer, arts administrator (1991) |
Hawes, Bess Lomax - folklorist (1993) |
Hawkins, Erick - dance choreographer (1994) |
Hayes, Helen - actress (1988) |
Hecht, Anthony - poet (2004) |
Hirschfeld, Al - artist, illustrator (2002) |
Holladay, Wilhelmina - arts patron (2006) |
Hope, Bob - entertainer (1995) |
Horne, Marilyn - opera singer (1992) |
Horowitz, Vladimir - pianist (1989 - posthumous award) |
Houser, Allan - sculptor (1992) |
Howard, Ron - actor, director, writer, producer (2003) |
Interlochen Center for the Arts - school of fine arts (2006) |
Jamison, Judith - artistic director, choreographer, dancer (2001) |
Johns, Jasper - painter, sculptor (1990) |
Johnston, Ollie - film animator and artist (2005) |
Jones, George - country music composer, performer (2002) |
Jones, Hank - jazz musician (2008) |
Jones, James Earl - actor (1992) |
Kelly, Gene - dancer, singer, actor (1994) |
Kiley, Daniel Urban - landscape architect (1997) |
King, Riley "B. B." - blues musician, singer (1990) |
Kirstein, Lincoln - arts patron (1985) |
Knox, Seymour H. - arts patron (1986) |
Kreeger, David Lloyd - arts patron (1990) |
Kunitz, Stanley - poet, educator (1993) |
Kunzel, Erich - conductor (2006) |
Lansbury, Angela - actor (1997) |
Lauridsen, Morten - composer (2007) |
Lawrence, Jacob - painter (1990) |
Le Gallienne, Eva - actress, author (1986) |
Lear, Norman - producer, writer, director, advocate (1999) |
Lee, Ming Cho - theater designer (2002) |
Lee, Stan - comic book writer, producer (2008) |
LeNoire, Rosetta - actress, producer (1999) |
Levine, James - opera conductor, pianist (1997) |
Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney - arts patrons (1987) |
Lewitzky, Bella - dancer, choreographer, teacher (1996) |
Lichtenstein, Harvey - arts administrator (1999) |
Lichtenstein, Roy - painter, sculptor (1995) |
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund - foundation arts patron (1992) |
JosČ LimŪn Dance Foundation - modern dance company and institute (2008) |
List, Vera - arts patron (1996) |
Lomax, Alan - folklorist, scholar (1986) |
Ma, Yo-Yo - cellist (2001) |
MacDowell Colony - artist colony (1997) |
Manilow, Lewis - arts patron (2000) |
Marsalis, Wynton - trumpeter, composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director (2005) |
Martin, Agnes - visual artist (1998) |
Masterson, Harris and Carroll Sterling - arts patrons (1990) |
McHarg, Ian - landscape architect (1990) |
Mellon, Paul - arts patron (1985) |
Mendoza, Lydia - singer (1999) |
Merrill, Robert - baritone (1993) |
Miller, Arthur - playwright (1993) |
Milosz, Czeslaw - writer (1989) |
Mitchell, Arthur - dancer, choreographer (1995) |
Momaday, N. Scott - author, essayist, poet, professor, painter (2007) |
Monroe, William S. - bluegrass musician (1995) |
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - choral group (2003) |
Jess Moroles - sculptor (2008) |
Motherwell, Robert - painter (1989) |
Mumford, Lewis - philosopher, literary critic (1986) |
National Public Radio, Cultural Programming Division - broadcaster (2000) |
Nemerov, Howard - writer, scholar (1987) |
Nevelson, Louise - sculptress (1985) |
Nichols, Mike - director, producer (2001) |
Nikolais, Alwin - dancer, choreographer (1987) |
Neuberger, Roy R. - arts patron (2007) |
Noel, R. Craig - Old Globe Theatre director (2007) |
Noguchi, Isamu - sculptor (1987) |
O'Keeffe, Georgia - painter (1985) |
Odetta - singer, music historian (1999) |
Oldenburg, Claes - sculptor (2000) |
Parks, Gordon - photographer, film director (1988) |
Parton, Dolly - singer, songwriter (2005) |
Paul, Les - guitarist, inventor (2007) |
Pearl, Minnie - Grand Ole Opry performer (1992) |
Peck, Gregory - actor, producer (1998) |
Pei, I. M. - architect (1988) |
Pell, Claiborne - Presidential Citizens Medal (1994) |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - school of fine arts/museum (2005) |
Perlman, Itzhak - violinist (2000) |
Peters, Roberta - opera singer (1998) |
Preservation Hall Jazz Band - jazz ensemble (2006) |
Price, Leontyne - soprano (1985) |
Primus, Pearl - choreographer, anthropologist (1991) |
Prince, Harold - theater director, producer (2000) |
Puente, Tito - Latin percussionist, musician (1997) |
Rabassa, Gregory - literary translator (2006) |
Ramirez, Tina - choreographer, Ballet Hispanico artistic director (2005) |
Rauschenberg, Robert - artist (1993) |
Redford, Robert - actor, director, producer (1996) |
Richards, Lloyd - theatrical director (1993) |
Robards, Jason - actor (1997) |
Robbins, Jerome - dancer, choreographer (1988) |
Robinson, William "Smokey" - songwriter and musician (2002) |
Roth, Philip - writer (1998) |
Ruthven, John - wildlife artist (2004) |
Sara Lee Corporation - corporate arts patron (1998) |
Saudek, Robert - television producer, Museum of Broadcasting founding director (1992) |
Schreckengost, Viktor - industrial designer/sculptor (2006) |
Schuman, William - composer (1987) |
Scruggs, Earl - banjo player (1992) |
Scully, Vincent - architectural historian and educator (2004) |
Seeger, Pete - composer, lyricist, vocalist, banjo player (1994) |
Segal, George - sculptor (1999) |
Sendak, Maurice - writer, illustrator, designer (1996) |
Serkin, Rudolf - pianist (1988) |
Shaw, Robert - orchestra conductor, choral director (1992) |
Sherman Brothers - songwriting team (2008) |
Shouse, Catherine Filene - arts patron (1994) |
Sills, Beverly - opera singer, director (1990) |
Slatkin, Leonard - symphony orchestra conductor (2003) |
Sondheim, Stephen - composer, lyricist (1996) |
Southeastern Bell Corporation - corporate arts patron (1990) |
Stanley, Dr. Ralph - bluegrass musician (2006) |
Steinway, Henry - arts patron (2007) |
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - arts organization (1998) |
Stern, Isaac - violinist (1991) |
Stevens, Roger L. - arts administrator (1988) |
Strait, George - country singer, songwriter (2003) |
Streisand, Barbra - entertainer, filmmaker (2000) |
Styron, William - writer (1993) |
Tallchief, Maria - ballerina (1999) |
Tandy, Jessica - actress (1990) |
Tanner, Obert C. - arts patron (1988) |
Taylor, Billy - jazz pianist (1992) |
Taylor, Paul - dancer, choreographer (1993) |
Texaco Inc. - corporate arts patron (1991) |
Tharp, Twyla - contemporary dance choreographer (2004) |
The Juilliard School - performing arts school (1999) |
The Presser Foundation - music patron (2008) |
Thiebaud, Wayne - artist, teacher (1994) |
Thomson, Virgil - composer, music critic (1988) |
Tooker, George - painter (2007) |
Tully, Alice - arts patron (1985) |
Tune, Tommy - dancer, actor, choreographer, director (2003) |
University of Idaho Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival - music competition and festival (2007) |
Updike, John - writer (1989) |
Urban Gateways - arts education organization (1995) |
Venturi, Robert - architect (1992) |
Verdon, Gwen - actress, dancer (1998) |
Villella, Edward - dancer, choreographer (1997) |
Warren, Robert Penn - writer, poet (1987) |
Watson, Doc - bluegrass guitarist, vocalist (1997) |
Welty, Eudora - writer (1986) |
Wilbur, Richard - poet, teacher, critic, literary translator (1994) |
Wilder, Billy - movie director, writer, producer (1993) |
Wise, Robert - film producer, director (1992) |
Wyeth, Andrew - painter
(2007) |
Yates, Sidney R. - Presidential Citizens Medal (1993) |
Young Audiences - arts presenter (1994) |