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NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS

1994
Harry Belafonte - Singer, actor
Dave Brubeck - Pianist, bandleader, composer
Celia Cruz - Singer
Dorothy DeLay - Violin teacher
Julie Harris - Actress
Erick Hawkins - Dance choreographer
Gene Kelly - Dancer, singer, actor
Pete Seeger - Composer, lyricist, vocalist, banjo player
Catherine Filene Shouse - Arts patron
Wayne Thiebaud - Artist, teacher
Richard Wilbur - Poet, teacher, critic, literary translator
Young Audiences - Arts presenter

1993
Walter and Leonore Annenberg - Arts patrons
Cabell "Cab" Calloway - Singer, bandleader
Ray Charles - Singer, musician
Bess Lomax Hawes - Folklorist
Stanley Kunitz - Poet, educator
Robert Merrill - Baritone 
Arthur Miller - Playwright
Robert Rauschenberg - Artist
Lloyd Richards - Theatrical director
William Styron - Author
Paul Taylor - Dancer, choreographer
Billy Wilder - Movie director, writer, producer

1992
Marilyn Horne - Opera Singer
James Earl Jones - Actor
Allen Houser - Sculptor
Minnie Pearl - Grand Ole Opry Performer
Robert Saudek - Television Producer/Museum of Broadcasting Founding Director
Earl Scruggs - Banjo player
Robert Shaw - Orchestra Conductor/Choral Director
Billy Taylor - Jazz pianist
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Architects 
Robert Wise - Film producer, director 
AT&T - Corporate Patron
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund - Foundation Patron

1991
Maurice Abravanel - Music director, conductor
Roy Acuff - Country singer, bandleader
Pietro Belluschi - Architect
J. Carter Brown - Museum director
Charles "Honi" Coles - Tap dancer
John O. Crosby - Opera director, conductor, administrator
Richard Diebenkorn - Painter
R. Philip Hanes, Jr. - arts patron
Kitty Carlisle Hart - Actress, singer, arts administrator, dancer
Pearl Primus - Choreographer, anthropologist
Isaac Stern - violinist
Texaco Inc. - arts patron

1990 
George Francis Abbott - Actor, playwright, producer, director
Hume Cronyn - Actor, director
Jessica Tandy - Actress
Merce Cunningham - Choreographer, dance company director
Jasper Johns - Painter, sculptor
Jacob Lawrence - Painter
Riley "B.B." King - Blues musician, singer
David Lloyd Kreeger - Arts patron
Harris & Carroll Sterling Masterson - Arts patrons
Ian McHarg - Landscape architect
Beverly Sills - Opera singer, director
Southeastern Bell Corporation - Corporate arts patron

1989
Leopold Adler - Preservationist, civic leader
Katherine Dunham - Dancer, choreographer
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Photographer 
Martin Friedman - Museum Director
Leigh Gerdine - Arts patron, civic leader
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie - Jazz trumpeter
Walker Kirtland Hancock - Sculptor
Vladimir Horowitz (Posthumous award) - Pianist 
Czelaw Milosz - Writer
Robert Motherwell - Painter
John Updike - Writer
Dayton Hudson Corporation - Corporate arts patron

1988
Saul Bellow - Writer
Helen Hayes - Actress
Gordon Parks - Photographer, film director
I.M. Pei - Architect
Jerome Robbins - Dancer, choreographer
Rudolf Serkin - Pianist
Virgil Thomson - Composer, music critic
Sydney J. Freedberg - Art historian, curator
Roger L. Stevens - Arts administrator
(Mrs. Vincent) Brooke Astor - Arts patron
Francis Geolet - Music patron
Obert C. Tanner - Arts patron

1987
Romare Bearden - Painter
Ella Fitzgerald - Singer
Howard Nemerov - Writer, Scholar
Alwin Nikolais - Dancer, choreographer 
Isamu Noguchi - Sculptor
William Schuman - Composer
Robert Penn Warren - Poet
J. W. Fisher - Arts patron
Dr. Armand Hammer - Arts patron
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Lewis - Arts patrons