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1986 Marian Anderson - Opera singer Frank Capra - Film director Aaron Copland - Composer Willem de Kooning - Painter Agnes de Mille - Choreographer Eva Le Gallienne - Actress/author Alan Lomax - Folklorist, scholar Lewis Mumford - Philosopher, literary critic Eudora Welty - Writer Dominique de Menil - Arts patron Exxon Corporation - Corporate arts patron Seymour H. Knox - Arts patron 1985 Elliott Carter, Jr. - Composer Ralph (Waldo) Ellison - Writer Jose Ferrer - Actor Martha Graham - Dancer, choreographer Louise Nevelson - Sculptress Georgia O'Keefe - Painter Leontyne Price - Soprano Dorothy Buffum Chandler - Arts patron Lincoln Kirstein - Arts patron Paul Mellon - Arts patron Alice Tully - Arts patron Hallmark Cards, Inc. - Corporate arts patron