Carnegie Prize

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The Carnegie Prize is an international prize for artists, awarded by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It comprises a $10,000 prize and the Medal of Honor, designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J.E. Caldwell & Co. The award was originally established in 1896 and after undergoing several transformations was reorganised in 1985 to award the prize in the context of a nominee's lifetime work. It is presented as part of an exhibition of contemporary art, which since 1982 has been called the Carnegie International and held every 3 years.

The prize should not be confused with the Carnegie Medal, which is awarded for children's literature or the Carnegie Prize awarded for art by the National Academy of Design in New York.

First Prize Winners

2013 Nicole Eisenman

2008 Vija Celmins

1999

1995 Sigmar Polke for painting and Richard Artschwager for sculpture

1991 On Kawara

1988 Rebecca Horn for "The Hydra Forest" (sculpture)

1985 Anselm Kiefer for "Midgard" and Richard Serra for "Carnegie" (sculpture)

1982 No awards

International exhibition suspended

1970 No awards

1967 Joan Miro

1964 Six prizes awarded

1961 Mark Tobey for painting and Alberto Giacometti for sculpture

1958 Antoni Tapies for a marble dust painting and Alexander Calder for sculpture

1955

1952 Ben Nicholson

1950 Jacques Villon for "The Thresher"

1940-1949 International exhibition suspended

1939 Alexander Brook for "Georgia Jungle"

1938 Karl Hofer for "The Wind"

1937 Georges Braque for "The Yellow Cloth (The Yellow Tablecloth)"

1936 Leon Kroll for "The Road from the Cove"

1934 Peter Blume for "South of Scranton"

1930 Pablo Picasso for "Portrait of Mme Picasso"

1929 Felice Carena for "La scuola"

1928 André Derain for "Still Life"

1927 Henri Matisse for "Still Life"

1926 Ker-Xavier Roussel

1925 Henri Le Sidaner

1924 Augustus John for "Madame Suggia"

1923 Arthur Bowen Davies for "Afterthoughts of Earth"

1922 George W. Bellows for a painting of his family

1921 Ernest Lawson

1920 Abbot Henderson Thayer

1914–1919 No awards

1911 John White Alexander for "Sunlight"

1910 William Orpen for "Portrait of the Artist (Myself and Venus)"

1909 Edmund C. Tarbell for "Girl Crocheting"

1908 Thomas W. Dewing for "The Necklace"

1907 Gaston La Touche for "The Bath"

1906 No award

1905

1904 Walter Elmer Schofield for "Across the River"

1903 Frank Weston Benson for "A Woman Reading"

1902 No award

1901 Alfred H. Maurer for "An Arrangement"

1900 André Dauchez for "The Kelp Gatherers"

1899 Cecilia Beaux for "Mother and Daughter (Mrs. Clement Acton Griscom and Frances Canby Griscom)"

1898 Dwight W. Tryon for "Early Spring in New England"

1897

1896 John Lavery for "Lady in Brown"

References

Carnegie Prize Wikipedia

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