EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL WINNERS & PRESENTERS
The Edward MacDowell Medal is an award established in 1960 and presented annually to one creative artist whose works have made an outstanding contribution to the national culture. It is presented every summer at a public ceremony and open house at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.

(Asterisks denote Colony Fellows.)

YEAR

1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
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MEDALIST

Thornton Wilder*
Aaron Copland*
Robert Frost
Alexander Calder
Edmund Wilson
Edgard Varese
Edward Hopper
Marianne Moore
Roger Sessions
Louise Nevelson
Eudora Welty
William Schuman
Georgia O'Keeffe
Norman Mailer
Walter Piston
Willem de Kooning
Lillian Hellman
Virgil Thomson*
Richard Diebenkorn
John Cheever
Samuel Barber
John Updike
Isamu Noguchi
Elliott Carter
Mary McCarthy
Robert Motherwell
Lee Friedlander
Leonard Bernstein*
William Styron
Stan Brakhage
Louise Bourgeois
David Diamond*
Richard Wilbur
Harry Callahan
Jasper Johns
George Crumb
Joan Didion
Chuck Jones
I. M. Pei
Ellsworth Kelly
Lou Harrison
Philip Roth
Robert Frank
Merce Cunningham
Nam June Paik
Steve Reich
Alice Munro
Les Blank

DISCIPLINE

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Photographer
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Filmmaker
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Architect
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Interdisciplinary Artist
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SPEAKER

Edward Weeks
Irving Kolodin
Aaron Copland*
Meyer Shapiro
Aaron Copland*
Milton Babbitt
Lloyd Goodrich
Glenn Wescott
Edward T. Cone
John Canaday
Elizabeth Janeway
Aaron Copland*
Eric Larrabee
John Leonard
Michael Steinberg
Dore Ashton
John Hersey
Alfred Frankenstein*
John Canaday
Elizabeth Hardwick
Charles Wadsworth
Wilfred Sheed
William Lieberman
Michael Steinberg
Elizabeth Hardwick
Varujan Boghosian
John Szarkowski
Ned Rorem*
George Plimpton
John Hanhardt
Robert Storr
Joseph Polisi
Richard Howard
Anne Tucker
Kirk Varnedoe
Christopher Rouse
Elizabeth Hardwick
John Canemaker
J. Carter Brown
James Cuno
Dennis Russell Davies
William Styron
Philip Brookman
Meredith Monk*
John Hanhardt
Richard Serra and David Lang
Virginia Barber
Fred Wiseman