About
The Saint-Gaudens Medal was established in 1988 and is awarded from time to time to “such persons who, by their talents and beneficence, have made a distinguished contribution to the arts in America in the high tradition of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.” Our practice is to award the medal to those whose efforts have added to our knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Saint-Gaudens and the Cornish Colony.
The silver medal pictured above was designed in 1992 by artist Robert W. White (1921–2002). Bobby White was a long-time trustee of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial and a grandson of the architect Stanford White, who frequently collaborated with Saint-Gaudens.
Recipients
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2023
Harold Holzer, historian and author
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2021
Wanda M. Corn, art historian
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2019
Dartmouth College Library
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2016
David McCullough, historian and author
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2014
James B. Atkinson, historian and author
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2005
Earl A. Powell, III, Director, National Gallery of Art
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2000
Rosamond Putnam, arts advocate
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1998
Eric Lagercrantz, donor
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1997
Robert W. White, sculptor
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1994
Burke Wilkinson, author
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1994
Charles A. Platt, architect and artist
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1992
Walker Hancock, sculptor
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1990
Lincoln Kirstein, author and arts advocate