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For the Swedish art award, see Carnegie Art Award.
Carnegie Gold Medal of Honor (1896)

The Carnegie Prize is an international art prize awarded by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It currently consists of a $10,000 cash prize accompanied by a gold medal.

History

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The Carnegie Prize was established in 1896, to recognize the best painting shown in the first annual exhibition of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Unlike most American annual exhibitions, which were limited to artists born or resident in the United States, the Carnegie exhibitions were international.[1] To attract top painters from home and abroad, the Carnegie exhibitions offered high cash prizes—$1,500 for the First Class winner, $1,000 for the Second-Class winner and $500 for the Third-Class winner. The First-Class winner's cash prize was accompanied by the Carnegie Gold Medal of Honor (1896), designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J.E. Caldwell & Co. Often, especially in the early years, the prize-winning painting was purchased for the museum's permanent collection.[1]

The exhibition has undergone a series of name changes and transformations—adding a gold medal for sculpture (beginning in 1958),[2] and going from a schedule of every year to every second or third year, and now, to every fourth or fifth year. The exhibitions in the late 1970s were retrospectives of established artists. In 1982, the exhibition was renamed the Carnegie International, and returned to its original mission of showing recent works by a host of artists. In 1985, the Carnegie Prize was refocused to recognize not just a single work of art but an honoree's entire body of work.[1] In the 1990s, the exhibition expanded to include non-traditional artists and filmmakers.

As of 2019, 67 Carnegie Prizes had been awarded and one was refused (Irish painter Francis Bacon, 1967).[3] The Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida was awarded it twice (1964 for an individual sculpture, 1979 for his body of work). American painter Cecilia Beaux was the first woman awarded the Carnegie Prize (1899); German sculptor Rebecca Horn was the second woman (1988). South African artist William Kentridge was the first filmmaker awarded it (1999). Documenta, the German contemporary art exhibition, was the only organization awarded the prize (1979). English artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was the first woman of color awarded the prize (2018).

The Carnegie International's prize should not be confused with the Carnegie Prize of the National Academy of Design, the Carnegie Prize of the Society of American Artists, the Carnegie Art Award (Sweden), or with the Carnegie Medal (literary award).

List of Gold Medal winners

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Year Artist Image Work Collection Notes
Annual Exhibition at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute[4]
$1,500 cash award accompanied the gold medal

1896
1st 		John Lavery
 Ireland 		Lady in Brown[4]
1897
2nd 		James Jebusa Shannon
 United States 		Miss Kitty[5][6] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 		The artist's daughter and two dogs
1898
3rd 		Dwight William Tryon
 United States 		Early Spring in New England[7] Freer Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
1899
4th 		Cecilia Beaux
 United States 		Mother and Daughter
(Mrs. Clement Acton Griscom & Frances
Canby Griscom) 		Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 		Gold Medal: 1900 Paris Exposition
1900 Temple Gold Medal (PAFA)

First woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. (The next was not
until 1988.)
1900
5th 		André Dauchez
 France 		The Kelp Gatherers
1901
6th 		Alfred H. Maurer
 United States 		An Arrangement Whitney Museum of American Art,
Manhattan, New York City
1902
7th 		Exhibition of loaned works.[4]
No prizes awarded.
1903
8th 		Frank Weston Benson
 United States 		A Woman Reading[8] Beverly Arts Association,
Chicago, Illinois
1904
9th 		Walter Elmer Schofield
 United States 		Across the River[9][10] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1905
10th 		Lucien Simon
 France 		Evening in a Studio Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts,
Stanford University,
Stanford, California
1906 No annual exhibition
(due to museum expansion)[4]
1907
11th 		Gaston La Touche
 France 		The Bath[4] Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11]
Ex collection: University Club of Pittsburgh
Sold at Dargate Auction Galleries, Pittsburgh, 7 October 2017.[12]
1908
12th 		Thomas W. Dewing
 United States 		The Necklace[4] Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
1909
13th 		Edmund C. Tarbell
 United States 		A Girl Crocheting[13] Arkell Museum,
Canajoharie, New York
1910
14th 		William Orpen
 Ireland 		Portrait of the Artist (Venus and Myself)[14] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1911
15th 		John White Alexander
 United States 		A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist) private collection
1912
16th 		Charles Sims
 England 		Pastorella[15] Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11]
1913
17th 		Glyn Warren Philpot
 England 		The Marble Worker[16] Muskegon Museum of Art,
Muskegon, Michigan
1914
18th 		Edward Redfield
 United States 		The Village in Winter[17][18] Payne Gallery,
Moravian College,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 		Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11]
1915–1919 No annual exhibitions (due to World War I)[4]
International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh[19]
Name change

1920
19th 		Abbot Henderson Thayer
 United States 		Young Woman in Olive Plush
(Woman in Green Velvet)[20] 		Addison Gallery of American Art,
Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts
1921
20th 		Ernest Lawson
 United States 		Vanishing Mist[21][22] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1922
21st 		George W. Bellows
 United States 		Elinor, Jean and Anna[23] Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, New York 		The artist's aunt, daughter and mother
1921 Beck Gold Medal (PAFA)
1923
22nd 		Arthur Bowen Davies
 United States 		Afterthoughts of Earth[24]
1924
23rd 		Augustus John
 Wales 		Madame Suggia[25] Tate Britain,
London, UK
1925
24th 		Henri Le Sidaner
 France (born Mauritius) 		Window on the Bay of Villefranche[26] Huntington Museum of Art,
Huntington, West Virginia
1926
25th 		Ker-Xavier Roussel
 France 		The Garden (The Garden Window)[27] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1927
26th 		Henri Matisse
 France 		Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier[28] Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, Virginia
1928
27th 		André Derain
 France 		Still Life[29] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1929
28th 		Felice Carena
 Italy 		La Scuola[30] Banca Monte dei Paschi Collection,
Siena, Italy
1930
29th 		Pablo Picasso
 Spain 		Portrait of Mme Picasso[4] private collection
1931
30th 		Franklin C. Watkins
 United States 		Suicide in Costume[31] Philadelphia Museum of Art Depicts a dead man in clown costume holding a smoking gun.
1932 No annual exhibition (due to severity of the
Great Depression) 		Cash award reduced to $1,000
1933
31st 		André Dunoyer de Segonzac
 France 		Saint-Tropez
1934
32nd 		Peter Blume
 United States (born Russia) 		South of Scranton[32] Metropolitan Museum of Art
1935
33rd 		Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes y Gómez
 Spain 		Elvira and Tiberio[33] Ex collection: Fine Arts Society of San Diego[33]
Auctioned at Sotheby's NY, 18–19 November 1987[33]
1936
34th 		Leon Kroll
 United States 		The Road from the Cove[34] private collection
1937
35th 		Georges Braque
 France 		The Yellow Cloth (The Yellow Tablecloth)[4] private collection
1938
36th 		Karl Hofer
 Germany 		The Wind[35] Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, Michigan
1939
37th 		Alexander Brook
 United States 		Georgia Jungle[36][37] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1940–1949 No annual exhibitions (due to World War II).
Instead, 9 exhibitions of American paintings.[4]
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting Exhibition reorganized as a biennial
Cash award increased to $2,000

1950
38th 		Jacques Villon
 France 		The Thresher Villon was a Cubist painter, and the brother of Marcel Duchamp.
1951 No exhibition
1952
39th 		Ben Nicholson
 England[4] 		Azure[38] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1953 & 1954 No exhibitions Exhibition reorganized as a triennial.[4]
1955
40th 		Alfred Manessier
 France 		Crown of Thorns[39] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1956 & 1957 No exhibitions
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture[2]
Gold Medal for Sculpture added

1958
41st
Painting 		Antoni Tàpies
 Spain 		Painting[40] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1958
41st
Sculpture 		Alexander Calder
 United States 		Mobile: Pittsburgh[41] Pittsburgh International Airport
1959 & 1960 No exhibitions
1961
42nd
Painting 		Mark Tobey
 United States 		Untitled[42] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1961
42nd
Sculpture 		Alberto Giacometti
 Switzerland 		Walking Man 1[43] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1962 & 1963 No exhibitions
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art "The traditional award structure of numbered prizes has been
eliminated in favor of equal awards, four for painting and two
for sculpture, each in the amount of $2,000."[44]
1964
43rd
Painting 		Ellsworth Kelly
 United States 		Blue, Black and Red
Victor Pasmore
 England 		Red Abstract No. 5[45] Bristol Museum & Art Gallery,
Bristol, England.
Antonio Saura
 Spain 		Imaginary Portrait of Goya[46] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pierre Soulages
 France 		24 November '63[47] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 		Meditation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964
43rd
Sculpture 		Jean Arp
 Germany 		Sculpture Classique[48] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Eduardo Chillida[49]
 Spain 		Modulation d'espace II[50] Lehmbruck Museum,
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1965 & 1966 No exhibitions
1967
44th
Painting 		Francis Bacon
 Ireland 		Bacon refused the prize.[3]
Josef Albers
 United States (born Germany) 		Homage to the Square: Vernal[51] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Joan Miró
 Spain 		Queen Louise of Prussia[52] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1967
44th
Sculpture 		Victor Vasarely
 France (born Hungary) 		Alom[53] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1968 & 1969 No exhibitions
1970
45th 		No prizes awarded
1971–1976 No exhibitions (due to construction of the
Sarah Mellon Scaife Gallery).[4]
Pittsburgh International Series Exhibition reorganized as a biennial retrospective of a single
artist's body of work.
$50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Prize awarded to honoree.[54]
1977
46th 		Pierre Alechinsky
 Belgium
1978 No exhibition
1979
47th 		Willem de Kooning
 United States (born Netherlands) 		$50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Prize split among 3 honorees
Eduardo Chillida[49]
 Spain
Documenta II (1959), IV (1968) and VI (1977)
 Germany 		International contemporary art exhibition held in Germany
1980 & 1981 No exhibitions
Carnegie International Exhibition Exhibition re-established as a triennial
$10,000 Carnegie International Prize

1982
48th 		No prizes awarded
1983 & 1984 No exhibitions
1985
49th
Painting 		Anselm Kiefer
 Germany 		Midgard[55] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1985
49th
Sculpture 		Richard Serra
 United States 		Carnegie[56] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1986 & 1987 No exhibitions
1988
50th 		Rebecca Horn
 Germany 		The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde[57] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Assemblage of electrical devices, glass, coal and other objects

Second woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
1989 & 1990 No exhibitions
1991
51st 		On Kawara
 Japan 		Date Paintings[58] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1992–1994 No exhibitions
1995
52nd
Painting 		Sigmar Polke
 Germany 		Hermes Trismegistos I-IV[59] De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
1995
52nd
Sculpture 		Richard Artschwager
 United States 		Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies[60] Carnegie Art Museum,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1996–1998 No exhibitions
1999/2000
53rd 		William Kentridge
 South Africa 		Film: Stereoscope First filmmaker awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2001–2003 No exhibitions
2004/2005
54th 		Kutlug Ataman
 Turkey 		40-channel video installation: Kuba[61] Interviews with residents of Kuba, a shanty town in Istanbul.
2006 & 2007 No exhibitions
2008
55th
"Life on Mars" 		Vija Celmins
 United States (born Latvia) 		Night Sky #12[62] Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 		Third woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2009–2012 No exhibitions
2013
56th 		Nicole Eisenman[63]
 France 		Figure paintings and sculpture Fourth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2014–2017 No exhibitions
2018
57th 		Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
 England 		Figure paintings and portraits Fifth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
First woman of color awarded a Carnegie Prize.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "A History of the Carnegie International, 1896–2008". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, from Amazon.
  3. ^ a b Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Francis Bacon (Rizzoli International Publishing, 2009), p. 263.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Donald Miller (8 October 2004). "Carnegie International Timeline". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ^ Miss Kitty, from CMoA
  6. ^ Miss Kitty, from SIRIS.
  7. ^ Early Spring in New England, from SIRIS.
  8. ^ A Woman Reading, from SIRIS.
  9. ^ Across the River, from CMoA.
  10. ^ Across the River, from SIRIS.
  11. ^ a b c Will J. Hyett, "Some Collections of Paintings in Pittsburgh," Art and Archaeology, vol. 14, nos. 5-6 (November/December 1922), p. 328.
  12. ^ The Bath, from LiveAuctioneers.
  13. ^ A Girl Crocheting, from SIRIS.
  14. ^ Venus and Myself, from CMoA.
  15. ^ "The International studio". New York, John Lane Co. [etc.] 4 January 1897 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ "The International studio". New York, John Lane Co. [etc.] 4 January 1897 – via Internet Archive.
  17. ^ The Village in Winter, from SIRIS.
  18. ^ Village in Winter Archived 2018-12-29 at the Wayback Machine, from The Athenaeum.
  19. ^ "The Pittsburgh international exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture. 1920 (19th)". HathiTrust.
  20. ^ Woman in Green Velvet, from SIRIS.
  21. ^ Vanishing Mist, from CMoA.
  22. ^ Vanishing Mist, from SIRIS.
  23. ^ Elinor, Jean and Anna, from SIRIS.
  24. ^ Afterthoughts of Earth, from SIRIS.
  25. ^ Madame Suggia, from Tate Britain.
  26. ^ Window on the Bay of Villefranche, from Google Arts & Culture.
  27. ^ The Garden, from CMoA.
  28. ^ Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier, from VMFA.
  29. ^ Still Life, from CMoA.
  30. ^ La Scuola, from Artribune.
  31. ^ Suicide in Costume, from PMA.
  32. ^ South of Scranton, from MMA.
  33. ^ a b c Elvira and Tiberio, from San Diego State University.
  34. ^ Road from the Cove, from SIRIS.
  35. ^ The Wind, from DIA.
  36. ^ Georgia Jungle, from CMoA.
  37. ^ Georgia Jungle, from SIRIS.
  38. ^ Azure, from CMoA.
  39. ^ Crown of Thorns, from CMoA.
  40. ^ Painting, from CMoA.
  41. ^ Pittsburgh (sculpture), from SIRIS.
  42. ^ Untitled, from CMoA.
  43. ^ Walking Man 1, from CMoA.
  44. ^ Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Carnegie Institute, Dept. of Fine Arts, 1964), p. 16.
  45. ^ Red Abstract No. 5, from Art UK.
  46. ^ Imaginary Portrait of Goya, from CMoA.
  47. ^ 24 November '63, from CMoA.
  48. ^ Sculpture Classique, from CMoA.
  49. ^ a b Ken Johnson, "Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78," The New York Times, 22 August 2002.
  50. ^ Modulation d'espace, (PDF) Archived 2018-12-30 at the Wayback Machine from Lehmbruck Museum.
  51. ^ Homage to the Square: Vernal, from CMoA.
  52. ^ Queen Louise of Prussia, from CMoA.
  53. ^ Alom, from CMoA.
  54. ^ Nicole F. Scalissi, "Art of the People: Pierre Alechinsky and the CoBrA Movement," from CMoA.
  55. ^ Midgard, from CMoA.
  56. ^ Carnegie, from CMoA.
  57. ^ The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde, from SFMOMA.
  58. ^ Date Paintings, from CMoA.
  59. ^ Hermes Trismegistos I-IV, from De Pont Museum.
  60. ^ Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies, from CMoA.
  61. ^ Oskar Czerniawski, "Kutlug Ataman's Kuba offers a window into a community," Culture24, from Arts Council England.
  62. ^ Night Sky #12, from CMoA.
  63. ^ "Artist Nicole Eisenman wins Carnegie Prize for ingenious installation at Carnegie International". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 22 Jan 2014.
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