Hamlin Garland Charles Dana Gibson Cass Gilbert Richard Watson Gilder Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Brendan Gill William Gillette Daniel Coit Gilman Allen Ginsberg Bertram G. Goodhue Robert Grant William Elliot Griffis Arthur Twining Hadley Childe Hassam Thomas Hastings Anthony Hecht David Jayne Hill Ripley Hitchcock Cecil de Blaquiere Howard Julia Ward Howe William Henry Howe William Dean Howells Archer Milton Huntington Charles Ives Henry James Robert Underwood Johnson Louis I. Kahn Kenneth Koch Maxine Kumin Sinclair Lewis Roy Lichtenstein Henry Cabot Lodge Abbott Lawrence Lowell Mary McCarthy Hamilton Wright Mabie Archibald MacLeish Frederick William MacMonnies J. D. McClatchy Brander Matthews William Keepers Maxwell Jr. William Rutherford Mead Gari Melchers Willard Metcalf Edna St. Vincent Millay Charles Moore Douglas Moore Paul Elmer More Robert Motherwell Georgia O'Keeffe Thomas N. Page Horatio Parker Joseph Pennell Bliss Perry William Lyon Phelps Charles Adams Platt Ezra Pound James Ford Rhodes James Whitcomb Riley George Lockhart Rives Elihu Root Theodore Roosevelt Mark Rothko Eero Saarinen Carl Sandburg John Singer Sargent Meyer Schapiro Arnold Schoenberg Harry Rowe Shelley Stuart Sherman Robert E. Sherwood Paul Shorey William Milligan Sloane Wallace Stevens Meryl Streep Lorado Taft Josef Tal Booth Tarkington Abbott Handerson Thayer William Roscoe Thayer Augustus Thomas Virgil Thomson Lionel Trilling Henry van Dyke John Charles Van Dyke Elihu Vedder Kurt Vonnegut Julian Alden Weir Barrett Wendell Edith Wharton Andrew Dickson White Thornton Wilder Brand Whitlock William Carlos Williams Woodrow Wilson Owen Wister George Edward Woodberry Frank Lloyd Wright James A. Wright Current academicians Awards Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts The award, a certificate and $1,000, goes to a United States resident who has "rendered notable service to the arts". 2003: Leon Botstein 2008: Judith Jamison Other awards The academy gives out numerous awards, with recipients chosen by committees of Academy members. Candidates for awards must be nominated by Academy members, except for the Richard Rodgers awards, for which an application may be submitted. Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters: In 1941, the Academy established awards to encourage creative work in the arts. Now $10,000 each, Academy Awards are given annually: five to artists, eight to writers, four to composers, and three to architects. Marc Blitzstein Award: The $5,000 award is given periodically to a composer, lyricist, or librettist, "to encourage the creation of works of merit for musical theater and opera". The award was established in 1965 by the friends of