Articles of Distinction
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Marlon Blackwell, Ron Chernow, Mel Chin, Henri Cole, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Mary Gaitskill, Adam Gopnik, Ann Hamilton, Edward Hirsch, Gish Jen, David Lang, George E. Lewis, Annea Lockwood, Michael Maltzan, Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Owens, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Grace Schulman, Arlene Shechet, Amy Sillman, Sharon Egretta Sutton, Nader Tehrani, Henry Threadgill, Billie Tsien, John White Alexander, Hugo Ballin, Varujan Boghosian, Struthers Burt, Alexander Calder, Henry Seidel Canby, Gilbert Cass, Willa Cather, Mary Frank, Walker Hancock, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Alan Hovhaness, William Dean Howells, Leonebel Jacobs, John M. Johansen, Robert Underwood Johnson, Wolf Kahn, William Mitchell Kendall, Jacob Lawrence, Edward H. May, Albert Bigelow Paine, I. M. Pei, Martin Puryear, Orlando Rouland, Carl Ruggles, Joel Shapiro, Ron Sisco, Eugene Speicher, Edward Steichen, John Steinbeck, Ezra Stoller, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Carl Van Vechten
March 14 – July 3, 2026
Images courtesy of the artists and American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Photos by Charles Benton and Alex Kluchman.