Carnegie Prize

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

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.<ref name="History"/> 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.<ref name="History"/>

The exhibition has undergone a series of name changes and transformations—adding a gold medal for sculpture (beginning in 1958),<ref name="1958 cat">The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, from Amazon.</ref> 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.<ref name="History">Template:Cite web</ref> 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).<ref name="Bacon"/> 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). Template:Clear

List of Gold Medal winners

Year	Artist	Work	Collection	Notes
Annual Exhibition at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute<ref name= PPG/>				$1,500 cash award accompanied the gold medal
1896 1st	John Lavery Template:IRL	Lady in Brown<ref name = PPG>Template:Cite news</ref>
1897 2nd	James Jebusa Shannon Template:USA	Miss Kitty<ref>Miss Kitty, from CMoA</ref><ref>Miss Kitty, from SIRIS.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	The artist's daughter and two dogs
1898 3rd	Dwight William Tryon Template:USA	Early Spring in New England<ref>Early Spring in New England, from SIRIS.</ref>	Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1899 4th	Cecilia Beaux Template:USA	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 Template:FRA	The Kelp Gatherers
1901 6th	Alfred H. Maurer Template:USA	An Arrangement	Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, New York City
1902 7th	Exhibition of loaned works.<ref name= PPG/> No prizes awarded.
1903 8th	Frank Weston Benson Template:USA	A Woman Reading<ref>A Woman Reading, from SIRIS.</ref>	Beverly Arts Association, Chicago, Illinois
1904 9th	Walter Elmer Schofield Template:USA	Across the River<ref>Across the River, from CMoA.</ref><ref>Across the River, from SIRIS.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1905 10th	Lucien Simon Template:FRA	Evening in a Studio	Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1906	No annual exhibition (due to museum expansion)<ref name= PPG/>
1907 11th	Gaston La Touche Template:FRA	The Bath<ref name= PPG/>		Ex collection: William S. Stimmel<ref name="Hyett">Will J. Hyett, "Some Collections of Paintings in Pittsburgh," Art and Archaeology, vol. 14, nos. 5-6 (November/December 1922), p. 328.</ref> Ex collection: University Club of Pittsburgh Sold at Dargate Auction Galleries, Pittsburgh, 7 October 2017.<ref>The Bath, from LiveAuctioneers.</ref>
1908 12th	Thomas W. Dewing Template:USA	The Necklace<ref name= PPG/>	Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1909 13th	Edmund C. Tarbell Template:USA	A Girl Crocheting<ref>A Girl Crocheting, from SIRIS.</ref>	Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, New York
1910 14th	William Orpen Template:IRL	Portrait of the Artist (Venus and Myself)<ref>Venus and Myself, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1911 15th	John White Alexander Template:USA	A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist)	private collection
1912 16th	Charles Sims Template:ENG	Pastorella<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>		Ex collection: William S. Stimmel<ref name="Hyett"/>
1913 17th	Glyn Warren Philpot Template:ENG	The Marble Worker<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
1914 18th	Edward Redfield Template:USA	The Village in Winter<ref>The Village in Winter, from SIRIS.</ref><ref>Village in Winter Template:Webarchive, from The Athenaeum.</ref>	Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	Ex collection: William S. Stimmel<ref name="Hyett"/>
1915–1919	No annual exhibitions (due to World War I)<ref name= PPG/>
International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>				Name change
1920 19th	Abbot Henderson Thayer Template:USA	Young Woman in Olive Plush (Woman in Green Velvet)<ref>Woman in Green Velvet, from SIRIS.</ref>	Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
1921 20th	Ernest Lawson Template:USA	Vanishing Mist<ref>Vanishing Mist, from CMoA.</ref><ref>Vanishing Mist, from SIRIS.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1922 21st	George W. Bellows Template:USA	Elinor, Jean and Anna<ref>Elinor, Jean and Anna, from SIRIS.</ref>	Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York	The artist's aunt, daughter and mother 1921 Beck Gold Medal (PAFA)
1923 22nd	Arthur Bowen Davies Template:USA	Afterthoughts of Earth<ref>Afterthoughts of Earth, from SIRIS.</ref>
1924 23rd	Augustus John Template:WAL	Madame Suggia<ref>Madame Suggia, from Tate Britain.</ref>	Tate Britain, London, UK
1925 24th	Henri Le Sidaner Template:FRA (born Mauritius)	Window on the Bay of Villefranche<ref>Window on the Bay of Villefranche, from Google Arts & Culture.</ref>	Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
1926 25th	Ker-Xavier Roussel Template:FRA	The Garden (The Garden Window)<ref>The Garden, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1927 26th	Henri Matisse Template:FRA	Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier<ref>Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier, from VMFA.</ref>	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1928 27th	André Derain Template:FRA	Still Life<ref>Still Life, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1929 28th	Felice Carena Template:ITA	La Scuola<ref>La Scuola, from Artribune.</ref>	Banca Monte dei Paschi Collection, Siena, Italy
1930 29th	Pablo Picasso Template:ESP	Portrait of Mme Picasso<ref name= PPG/>	private collection
1931 30th	Franklin C. Watkins Template:USA	12 Suicide in Costume], from PMA.</ref>	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 Template:FRA	Saint-Tropez
1934 32nd	Peter Blume Template:USA (born Russia)	South of Scranton<ref>South of Scranton, from MMA.</ref>	Metropolitan Museum of Art
1935 33rd	Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes y Gómez Template:ESP	Elvira and Tiberio<ref name="Hidalgo">Elvira and Tiberio, from San Diego State University.</ref>		Ex collection: Fine Arts Society of San Diego<ref name="Hidalgo"/> Auctioned at Sotheby's NY, 18–19 November 1987<ref name="Hidalgo"/>
1936 34th	Leon Kroll Template:USA	The Road from the Cove<ref>Road from the Cove, from SIRIS.</ref>	private collection
1937 35th	Georges Braque Template:FRA	The Yellow Cloth (The Yellow Tablecloth)<ref name= PPG/>	private collection
1938 36th	Karl Hofer Template:GER	The Wind<ref>The Wind, from DIA.</ref>	Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1939 37th	Alexander Brook Template:USA	Georgia Jungle<ref>Georgia Jungle, from CMoA.</ref><ref>Georgia Jungle, from SIRIS.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1940–1949	No annual exhibitions (due to World War II). Instead, 9 exhibitions of American paintings.<ref name= PPG/>
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting				Exhibition reorganized as a biennial Cash award increased to $2,000
1950 38th	Jacques Villon Template:FRA	The Thresher		Villon was a Cubist painter, and the brother of Marcel Duchamp.
1951	No exhibition
1952 39th	Ben Nicholson Template:ENG<ref name= PPG/>	Azure<ref>Azure, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1953 & 1954	No exhibitions			Exhibition reorganized as a triennial.<ref name= PPG/>
1955 40th	Alfred Manessier Template:FRA	Crown of Thorns<ref>Crown of Thorns, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1956 & 1957	No exhibitions
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture<ref name="1958 cat"/>				Gold Medal for Sculpture added
1958 41st Painting	Antoni Tàpies Template:ESP	Painting<ref>Painting, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1958 41st Sculpture	Alexander Calder Template:USA	Mobile: Pittsburgh<ref>Pittsburgh (sculpture), from SIRIS.</ref>	Pittsburgh International Airport
1959 & 1960	No exhibitions
1961 42nd Painting	Mark Tobey Template:USA	Untitled<ref>Untitled, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1961 42nd Sculpture	Alberto Giacometti Template:SWI	Walking Man 1<ref>Walking Man 1, from CMoA.</ref>	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."<ref>Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Carnegie Institute, Dept. of Fine Arts, 1964), p. 16.</ref>
1964 43rd Painting	Ellsworth Kelly Template:USA	Blue, Black and Red
	Victor Pasmore Template:ENG	Red Abstract No. 5<ref>Red Abstract No. 5, from Art UK.</ref>	Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England.
	Antonio Saura Template:ESP	Imaginary Portrait of Goya<ref>Imaginary Portrait of Goya, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Pierre Soulages Template:FRA	24 November '63<ref>24 November '63, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Meditation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964 43rd Sculpture	Jean Arp Template:GER	Sculpture Classique<ref>Sculpture Classique, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1964 43rd Sculpture	Eduardo Chillida<ref name="Chillida"/> Template:ESP	Modulation d'espace II<ref>Modulation d'espace, (PDF) Template:Webarchive from Lehmbruck Museum.</ref>	Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1965 & 1966	No exhibitions
1967 44th Painting	Francis Bacon Template:IRL			Bacon refused the prize.<ref name="Bacon">Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Francis Bacon (Rizzoli International Publishing, 2009), p. 263.</ref>
	Josef Albers Template:USA (born Germany)	Homage to the Square: Vernal<ref>Homage to the Square: Vernal, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Joan Miró Template:ESP	Queen Louise of Prussia<ref>Queen Louise of Prussia, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1967 44th Sculpture	Victor Vasarely Template:FRA (born Hungary)	Alom<ref>Alom, from CMoA.</ref>	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).<ref name= PPG/>
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.<ref>Nicole F. Scalissi, "Art of the People: Pierre Alechinsky and the CoBrA Movement," from CMoA.</ref>
1977 46th	Pierre Alechinsky Template:BEL
1978	No exhibition
1979 47th	Willem de Kooning Template:USA (born Netherlands)			$50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Prize split among 3 honorees
	Eduardo Chillida<ref name="Chillida">Ken Johnson, "Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78," The New York Times, 22 August 2002.</ref> Template:ESP
	Documenta II (1959), IV (1968) and VI (1977) Template:GER			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 Template:GER	Midgard<ref>Midgard, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1985 49th Sculpture	Richard Serra Template:USA	Carnegie<ref>Carnegie, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1986 & 1987	No exhibitions
1988 50th	Rebecca Horn Template:GER	The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde<ref>The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde, from SFMOMA.</ref>	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 Template:JAP	Date Paintings<ref>Date Paintings, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1992–1994	No exhibitions
1995 52nd Painting	Sigmar Polke Template:GER	Hermes Trismegistos I-IV<ref>Hermes Trismegistos I-IV, from De Pont Museum.</ref>	De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
1995 52nd Sculpture	Richard Artschwager Template:USA	Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies<ref>Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1996–1998	No exhibitions
1999/2000 53rd	William Kentridge Template:Flag	Film: Stereoscope		First filmmaker awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2001–2003	No exhibitions
2004/2005 54th	Kutlug Ataman Template:TUR	40-channel video installation: Kuba<ref>Oskar Czerniawski, "Kutlug Ataman's Kuba offers a window into a community," Culture24, from Arts Council England.</ref>		Interviews with residents of Kuba, a shanty town in Istanbul.
2006 & 2007	No exhibitions
2008 55th "Life on Mars"	Vija Celmins Template:USA (born Latvia)	Night Sky #12<ref>Night Sky #12, from CMoA.</ref>	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Third woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2009–2012	No exhibitions
2013 56th	Nicole Eisenman<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:FRA	Figure paintings and sculpture		Fourth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize.
2014–2017	No exhibitions
2018 57th	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Template:ENG	Figure paintings and portraits		Fifth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. First woman of color awarded a Carnegie Prize.