Honors and Awards
Wyeth was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees.
- 2007, the National Medal of Arts.
- 1988, the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States legislature.
- 1987, a D.F.A. from Bates College.
- 1980, the first living United States artist to be elected to Britain's Royal Academy.
- 1977, the first American artist since John Singer Sargent to be elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
- 1965, the gold medal for painting from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
- 1963, the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He also received numerous honorary degrees.
Read more about this topic: Andrew Wyeth
Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)