1997 in Review: People - Illustration

William Ivey, director since 1971 of the region Music Foundation in Nashville, was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Paul Cadmus, whose paintings frequently depict a satiric view of American morality, received the corporation Art Association's distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement.

Annette Blaugrund was named the first woman director of the National Academy of Design in fresh York. She was formerly a curator and planning director at the New-York Historical Society.

Doreen Bolger director of the Rhode Island seminary of Design Museum of Art since 1994 was appointed director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Louise Bourgeois, sculptor whose work frequently symbolically references her childhood, was awarded a National Medal of the Arts by dint of President Clinton.

George Segal, sculptor known for his plaster casts of ordinary nation received a $150,000 Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association.

Kerry James Marshall, painter, won a $260000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship as well as a $50000 Alpert Award, given by means of the California Institute of Arts.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, professor at the Art Center guild of Design in Pasadena, received the CAA's Mather award for art criticism and a $30000 Guggenheim fellowship.

Arnold L Lehman, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 1979 was named director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Richard Meier, architect of the of recent origin Getty Center in Los Angeles, was awarded a $150000 Praemium Imperiale and a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects.

Samuel Sachs II was named director of fresh York's Frick Collection. He was director of the Detroit Institute of Arts since 1985

Linda Nochlin was the recipient of the $10000 Scholar of the Year Award from the novel York State Council on the Humanities and the Women in the Arts Award from the CAA.

Yoshio Taniguchi, Japanese architect, was pick outed by New York's Museum of new Art to design its highly aspire toed expansion and renovation project.

Gerhard Richter, German painter, won a $150000 Praemium Imperiale, the $50000 Wexner Prize and a of gold Lion at the Venice Biennale.

Agnes Martin, abstract painter of gridded Minimalist canvases, received the CAA's distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement and a of gold Lion at the Venice Biennale.

James Turrell artist known for perceptual installations using light and space, received the $100000 Wolf Prize from Israel's Wolf Foundation.

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