Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award Winners

The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for professional achievement in art is presented annually to a graduate (or graduates) of the School of Art. Established in 1962, the award is named in honor of one of our most distinguished alumni of the school. He was admitted to The Cooper Union in 1861 at the age of 13 and was a friend of Peter Cooper’s.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Art 1866, was a leading American sculptor of the late 19th century. He is well known for his bronze historical memorials. He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848 and came to America as an infant.  He grew up in New York City.  At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a cameo cutter and, at 14, began his studies at Cooper Union. He later studied at the National Academy of Design and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  Shortly after returning from a stay in Rome in 1875, he received the commission for the Admiral Farragut monument in Madison Square, New York City which he completed in 1881. It was the first of a number of memorials relating to the Civil War. One of Saint-Gaudens’s best-known works is his memorial to General Sherman (1892-1903) in Central Park, New York City.  Others are the Standing Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park Chicago, The Seated Abraham Lincoln in Grant Park, Chicago, and the Statue of Diana that was once on top of Madison Square Garden.  It is now in the Philadelphia Museum.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was successful in his own time. He was a leader in the artistic community that grew up around his estate at Cornish, New Hampshire, where he died in 1907.   His house and studio have been preserved as the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. http://www.nps.gov/saga

2024	Ann Agee A’81
2023	Mitch Epstein A’76
2022	Patty Jenkins A’93
2021	Ashley F. Bryan A’46
2020	Juan Sanchez A’77
2019	Meredith Bergmann A’77
2018	Katie Merz A’84
2018	Jack Whitten A’64
2017	Victor Moscoso A’57
2016	Eric Drooker AR’83
2015	Leonardo Drew, A’85
2014	Julian LaVerdiere, A ’93 Augusta Savage, A ’25
2013	Regina Granne, A ’59
2012	Carin Goldberg A’75
2011	Wangechi Mutu A’97
2010	Steve Brodner A’76
2009	Abbott Miller A’85
2008	Whitfield Lovell A’81
2007	Roy DeCarava A’40 Mark Alan Stamaty A’69
2006	Al Greenberg A’48
2005	Lois Dodd A’48 Martin Charnin A’55 Alfred Blaustein A’47
2004	Emily Oberman A’85
2003	Philip Taaffe A’77
2002	Chuck Hoberman A’79
2001	Simms Taback A’53
2000	Shigeru Ban AR’84 Irwin Glusker A’48
1999	Thomas Aidala AR’55 Stephen Doyle A’78 Alan Feltus A’66
1998	Ricardo Scofidio AR’55 Elizabeth Diller AR’79
1997	Fred Marcellino A’60 Edward Feiner AR’69
1996	Jerome Witkin A’60 Joel-Peter Witkin A’70
1995	Arnold Arlow A’54
1994	Eleanore Petterson AR’41 Gregory Gillespie A ’60
1993	Reynold Ruffins A’51 Nicholas Fasciano A’60
1992	Daniel Libeskind AR’70
1991	George Gardner A’51
1990	Mario Buatta A’62
1989	Dimitri Hadzi A’50
1988	Neal Slavin A’63
1987	R.B. Kitaj A’53 Victor Papanek AR’50
1986	Bernard Rothzeid AR ’49 Gerald Gersten A’50
1985	John Berg A’53 Herman Jessor Eng 1917 Richard Lytle A’55
1984	Remy Charlip A’49 Alfred Lama AR’20 Eva Hesse A’57
1983	Arthur Rosenblatt AR’52
1982	Audrey Flack A’51
	Rolf Ohlhausen AR’58
1981	Roy Grace A’62
1980	Alex Katz A’49
1979	Richard Loew A’48
1978	Tom Wesselman A’59
1977	Jay Maisel A’52
1976	Norman Griner A’52
1975	John Q. Hejduk AR’50
1974	Lee Krasner A’29
1973	Edward Sorel A’51
1972	Seymour Chwast A’51
1971	George Segal A’44
1970	John Alcorn A’55
1969	Carl Fischer A’48
1968	Raphael Soyer A’17
1967	Arthur Kane A’50
1966	Milton Glaser A’51
1965	Herbert Lubalin A’39	Air Mail Stamp designed by Herb Lubalin
1964	William King A’48
1963	Louis Dorfsman A’39
1962	Arthur Singer A’39