National Medal of Arts
Isamu Noguchi
sculptor
William Schuman
composer
Robert Penn Warren
writer, poet
Marian Anderson
opera singer
Frank Capra
film director
Aaron Copland
composer
Willem de Kooning
painter
Dominique de Menil
arts patron
Agnes de Mille
choreographer, artistic director, dancer
Exxon Corporation
corporate arts patron
Seymour H. Knox
arts patron
Eva Le Gallienne
actress, author
Alan Lomax
folklorist, scholar
Lewis Mumford
philosopher, literary critic
Eudora Welty
writer