National Medal of Arts | Awards & Honors

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Mel Tillis

08/08/1932 – 11/19/2017

85 years

Ocala

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Harper Lee

04/28/1926 – 02/19/2016

89 years

American novelist

Monroeville

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Jesús Moroles

09/22/1950 – 06/15/2015

64 years

Jarrell

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Pete Seeger

05/03/1919 – 01/27/2014

94 years

American folk singer

153

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Leonard Garment

05/11/1924 – 07/13/2013

89 years

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George Jones

09/12/1931 – 04/26/2013

81 years

American country musician

Nashville

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Maria Tallchief

01/24/1925 – 04/11/2013

88 years

American ballerina

Chicago

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Van Cliburn

07/12/1934 – 02/27/2013

78 years

American pianist

Fort Worth

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James DePreist

11/21/1936 – 02/08/2013

76 years

Scottsdale

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Maurice Sendak

06/10/1928 – 05/08/2012

83 years

American illustrator and writer of children's books

Danbury Hospital

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Earl Scruggs

01/06/1924 – 03/28/2012

88 years

American musician

Nashville

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Robert B. Sherman

12/19/1925 – 03/06/2012

86 years

American songwriter

London

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Leopold Adler

04/18/1923 – 01/29/2012

88 years

Bonaventure Cemetery

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Helen Frankenthaler

12/12/1928 – 12/27/2011

83 years

American painter

Darien

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Louise Bourgeois

12/25/1911 – 05/31/2010

98 years

French-American artist

New York City

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Louis Auchincloss

09/27/1917 – 01/26/2010

92 years

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Bess Lomax Hawes

01/21/1921 – 11/27/2009

88 years

Portland

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Roy DeCarava

12/09/1919 – 10/27/2009

89 years

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Erich Kunzel

03/21/1935 – 09/01/2009

74 years

Bar Harbor

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Les Paul

06/09/1915 – 08/12/2009

94 years

American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor

White Plains

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John Updike

03/18/1932 – 01/27/2009

76 years

American novelist, poet

Danvers

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Andrew Wyeth

07/12/1917 – 01/16/2009

91 years

American visual artist

Chadds Ford Township

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Viktor Schreckengost

06/26/1906 – 01/26/2008

101 years

Tallahassee