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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