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This List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Art shows the members of one of the three departments of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
After being nominated by current members, new members are selected in two elections, the first by the department they join (Art, Literature or Music). Candidates who receive the most votes in their own department are then voted on by the entire membership.
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| Name | Life | Elected |
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| Edwin Austin Abbey | 1852-1911 | 1898 |
| Herbert Adams | 1858-1945 | 1898 |
| Wayman Adams | 1883-1959 | 1929 |
| David Adler | 1882-1949 | 1946 |
| Robert Ingersoll Aitken | 1878-1949 | 1915 |
| Josef Albers | 1888-1976 | 1968 |
| Ivan Albright | 1897-1983 | 1957 |
| Chester Aldrich | 1871-1940 | 1937 |
| John White Alexander | 1856-1915 | 1898 |
| Edmond Amateis | 1897-1981 | 1952 |
| Alexander Archipenko | 1887-1964 | 1962 |
| John Taylor Arms | 1887-1953 | 1932 |
| Louis Ayres | 1874-1947 | 1944 |
| George Fletcher Babb | 1836-1915 | 1907 |
| Henry Bacon | 1866-1924 | 1913 |
| Peggy Bacon | 1895-1987 | 1956 |
| William Bailey | 1930-2020 | 1986 |
| John Baldessari | 1931-2020 | 2008 |
| Hugo Ballin | 1879-1956 | 1908 |
| George Gray Barnard | 1863-1938 | 1908 |
| Edward Larrabee Barnes | 1915-2004 | 1991 |
| Frederic Clay Bartlett | 1873-1953 | 1916 |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | 1865-1925 | 1908 |
| Leonard Baskin | 1922-2000 | 1963 |
| Chester Beach | 1881-1956 | 1918 |
| Gifford Beal | 1879-1956 | 1923 |
| Romare Bearden | 1912-1988 | 1972 |
| Cecilia Beaux | 1855-1942 | 1930 |
| J. Carroll Beckwith | 1852-1917 | 1898 |
| George Wesley Bellows | 1882-1925 | 1918 |
| Pietro Belluschi | 1899-1994 | 1955 |
| Frank W. Benson | 1862-1951 | 1911 |
| Thomas Hart Benton | 1889-1975 | 1942 |
| Eugene Berman | 1899-1972 | 1964 |
| Leonid Berman | 1896-1976 | 1976 |
| Louis Betts | 1873-1961 | 1912 |
| George Biddle | 1885-1973 | 1961 |
| Albert Bierstadt | 1830-1902 | 1898 |
| Elmer Bischoff | 1916-1991 | 1988 |
| Isabel Bishop | 1902-1988 | 1944 |
| Karl Bitter | 1867-1915 | 1910 |
| Edwin Blashfield | 1848-1936 | 1898 |
| Hyman Bloom | 1913-2009 | 1974 |
| Robert Frederick Blum | 1857-1903 | 1898 |
| Peter Blume | 1906-1992 | 1951 |
| Varujan Boghosian | 1926-2020 | 1986 |
| Ilya Bolotowsky | 1907-1981 | 1982 |
| Charles Louis Borie Jr. | 1871-1943 | 1937 |
| Louis Bouche | 1896-1969 | 1983 |
| Louise Bourgeois | 1911-2010 | 1983 |
| Marcel Breuer | 1902-1981 | 1965 |
| Alexander Brook | 1898-1980 | 1942 |
| James Brooks | 1906-1992 | 1973 |
| Richard E. Brooks | 1865-1919 | 1908 |
| Arthur Brown Jr. | 1874-1957 | 1940 |
| Glenn Brown | 1854-1932 | 1909 |
| George Elmer Browne | 1871-1946 | 1929 |
| Edward Bruce | 1879-1943 | 1939 |
| Arnold W. Brunner | 1857-1925 | 1913 |
| George de Forest Brush | 1855-1941 | 1898 |
| William Gedney Bunce | 1840-1916 | 1898 |
| Gordon Bunshaft | 1909-1990 | 1960 |
| Charles E. Burchfield | 1893-1967 | 1943 |
| David Burliuk | 1882-1967 | 1967 |
| Daniel Burnham | 1846-1912 | 1906 |
| Howard Russell Butler | 1856-1934 | 1916 |
| Paul Cadmus | 1904-1999 | 1975 |
| Alexander Calder | 1898-1976 | 1960 |
| Alexander Stirling Calder | 1870-1945 | 1916 |
| Emil Carlsen | 1853-1932 | 1908 |
| John M. Carrere | 1858-1911 | 1908 |
| Federico Castellon | 1914-1971 | 1968 |
| Giorgio Cavallon | 1904-1989 | 1988 |
| William Merritt Chase | 1849-1916 | 1898 |
| Christo | 1935-2020 | 1989 |
| Allan Clark | 1896-1950 | 1931 |
| Gilmore David Clarke | 1892-1982 | 1937 |
| Ralph Clarkson | 1861-1942 | 1912 |
| Henry N. Cobb | 1926-2020 | 1980 |
| Timothy Cole | 1852-1931 | 1908 |
| Alfred Q. Collins | 1855-1903 | 1898 |
| Walter Cook | 1846-1916 | 1908 |
| Gardner Cox | 1906-1988 | 1957 |
| Kenyon Cox | 1856-1919 | 1898 |
| Ralph Adams Cram | 1863-1942 | 1915 |
| Paul Philippe Cret | 1876-1945 | 1936 |
| John Walter Cross | 1878-1951 | 1947 |
| Frederic Crowninshield | 1845-1918 | 1908 |
| John Steuart Curry | 1897-1946 | 1942 |
| Cyrus Dallin | 1861-1944 | 1916 |
| Peter Dalton | 1894-1972 | 1952 |
| William T. Dannat | 1853-1929 | 1898 |
| Jo Davidson | 1883-1952 | 1944 |
| Stuart Davis | 1894-1964 | 1956 |
| Frank Miles Day | 1861-1918 | 1908 |
| Joseph DeCamp | 1858-1923 | 1908 |
| Jose de Creeft | 1884-1982 | 1955 |
| Willem de Kooning | 1904-1997 | 1960 |
| Jean de Marco | 1898-1990 | 1959 |
| Adolph Dehn | 1895-1968 | 1965 |
| William Adams Delano | 1874-1960 | 1931 |
| Donald De Lue | 1898-1988 | 1946 |
| Charles Melville Dewey | 1849-1937 | 1908 |
| Thomas Dewing | 1951-1938 | 1908 |
| Edwin Dickinson | 1891-1978 | 1956 |
| Sidney Dickinson | 1890-1980 | 1931 |
| Richard Diebenkorn | 1922-1993 | 1967 |
| William Hunt Diederich | 1884-1953 | 1938 |
| Frederick Dielman | 1847-1935 | 1908 |
| John M. Donaldson | 1854-1941 | 1910 |
| Paul Dougherty | 1877-1947 | 1908 |
| Guy Pène du Bois | 1884-1958 | 1942 |
| Marcel Duchamp | 1887-1968 | 1960 |
| Frank DuMond | 1865-1951 | 1918 |
| Frank Duveneck | 1848-1919 | 1898 |
| Charles Eames | 1907-1978 | 1977 |
| Kerr Eby | 1889-1946 | 1937 |
| George Wharton Edwards | 1869-1950 | 1925 |
| Thomas Harlan Ellett | 1880-1951 | 1943 |
| Aymar Embury II | 1880-1966 | 1946 |
| Jimmy Ernst | 1920-1984 | 1983 |
| Rudulph Evans | 1878-1960 | 1926 |
| Philip Evergood | 1901-1973 | 1959 |
| Barry Faulkner | 1881-1962 | 1920 |
| Lyonel Feininger | 1871-1956 | 1955 |
| John Flanagan | 1865-1952 | 1923 |
| John Fulton Folinsbee | 1892-1972 | 1953 |
| Ben Foster | 1852-1926 | 1908 |
| Sam Francis | 1923-1994 | 1980 |
| Robert Frank | 1924-2019 | 2016 |
| James Earle Fraser | 1876-1953 | 1915 |
| Laura Gardin Fraser | 1889-1966 | 1931 |
| James Ingo Freed | 1930-2005 | 1994 |
| Daniel Chester French | 1850-1931 | 1898 |
| Leo Friedlander | 1888-1966 | 1953 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | 1963 |
| Naum Gabo | 1890-1977 | 1965 |
| Daniel Garber | 1880-1958 | 1948 |
| Lee Gatch | 1902-1968 | 1966 |
| Walter Gay | 1856-1937 | 1898 |
| Charles Dana Gibson | 1867-1944 | 1898 |
| Cass Gilbert | 1859-1934 | 1906 |
| William Glackens | 1870-1938 | 1936 |
| Leon Golub | 1922-2004 | 2002 |
| Bertram Goodhue | 1869-1924 | 1915 |
| Adolph Gottlieb | 1903-1974 | 1972 |
| Charles Grafly | 1862-1929 | 1908 |
| Morris Graves | 1910-2001 | 1957 |
| Nancy Graves | 1940-1995 | 1990 |
| Cleve Gray | 1918-2004 | 1998 |
| Dorothea Greenbaum | 1893-1986 | 1968 |
| Balcomb Greene | 1904-1990 | 1976 |
| John Gregory | 1879-1958 | 1930 |
| Eliot Gregory | 1954-1915 | 1898 |
| Walter Griffin | 1861-1935 | 1923 |
| Albert Lorey Groll | 1866-1952 | 1932 |
| Walter Gropius | 1883-1969 | 1962 |
| Chaim Gross | 1904-1991 | 1964 |
| George Grosz | 1893-1959 | 1954 |
| Jules Guerin | 1866-1946 | 1908 |
| Eric Gugler | 1889-1974 | 1942 |
| Philip Guston | 1913-1980 | 1972 |
| Charles Gwathmey | 1938-2009 | 1976 |
| Robert Gwathmey | 1903-1988 | 1971 |
| Dimitri Hadzi | 1921-2006 | 1983 |
| Walker Kirkland Hancock | 1901-1999 | 1941 |
| Henry Janeway Hardenbergh | 1847-1918 | 1908 |
| Hugh Hardy | 1932-2017 | 1993 |
| L. Birge Harrison | 1854-1929 | 1908 |
| T. Alexander Harrison | 1853-1930 | 1898 |
| Wallace Harrison | 1895-1981 | 1960 |
| Herbert Haseltine | 1877-1962 | 1935 |
| Childe Hassam | 1859-1935 | 1898 |
| Thomas Hastings | 1860-1929 | 1906 |
| Charles Webster Hawthorne | 1872-1930 | 1920 |
| Al Held | 1928-2005 | 1984 |
| John Heliker | 1909-2000 | 1969 |
| Robert Henri | 1865-1929 | 1908 |
| Eugene Higgins | 1874-1958 | 1943 |
| Joseph Hirsch | 1910-1981 | 1967 |
| Al Hirschfeld | 1903-2003 | 2003 |
| Malvina Hoffman | 1885-1966 | 1937 |
| Hans Hofmann | 1880-1966 | 1964 |
| Winslow Homer | 1836-1910 | 1905 |
| Charles Hopkinson | 1869-1962 | 1935 |
| Edward Hopper | 1882-1967 | 1945 |
| Donal Hord | 1902-1966 | 1950 |
| Cecil Howard | 1888-1956 | 1938 |
| John Galen Howard | 1864-1931 | 1908 |
| William Henry Howe | 1846-1929 | 1908 |
| John Mead Howells | 1868-1959 | 1911 |
| Anna Hyatt Huntington | 1876-1973 | 1927 |
| Samuel Isham | 1855-1914 | 1908 |
| Albert Jaegers | 1868-1925 | 1912 |
| C. Paul Jennewein | 1890-1978 | 1931 |
| John C. Johansen | 1876-1964 | 1930 |
| Philip Johnson | 1906-2005 | 1963 |
| Lester Johnson | 1919-2010 | 2004 |
| Francis Coates Jones | 1857-1932 | 1908 |
| Hugh Bolton Jones | 1848-1927 | 1908 |
| Robert Edmond Jones | 1887-1954 | 1933 |
| Louis Kahn | 1901-1974 | 1964 |
| Wolf Kahn | 1927-2020 | 1984 |
| William Sergeant Kendall | 1869-1938 | 1908 |
| William Mitchell Kendall | 1856-1941 | 1914 |
| Rockwell Kent | 1882-1971 | 1964 |
| György Kepes | 1906-2002 | 1968 |
| Dan Kiley | 1912-2004 | 1996 |
| R. B. Kitaj | 1932-2007 | 1982 |
| Karl Knaths | 1891-1971 | 1955 |
| John Koch | 1909-1978 | 1970 |
| Henry Kreis | 1899-1963 | 1951 |
| Leon Kroll | 1884-1974 | 1930 |
| Albert Laessle | 1877-1954 | 1931 |
| L. Bancel LaFarge | 1866-1938 | 1898 |
| John LaFarge | 1835-1910 | 1898 |
| William F. Lamb | 1883-1952 | 1950 |
| Armin Landeck | 1905-1984 | 1946 |
| Ibram Lassaw | 1911-2003 | 1984 |
| Francis Lathrop | 1849-1909 | 1898 |
| Gertrude K. Lathrop | 1896-1986 | 1949 |
| Robert Laurent | 1890-1970 | 1970 |
| Jacob Lawrence | 1917-2000 | 1965 |
| Lee Lawrie | 1877-1963 | 1931 |
| Ernest Lawson | 1873-1939 | 1918 |
| Rico Lebrun | 1900-1964 | 1960 |
| Clare Leighton | 1898-1989 | 1951 |
| Julian Levi | 1900-1982 | 1959 |
| David Levine | 1926-2009 | 1983 |
| Jack Levine | 1915-2010 | 1956 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | 1923-1997 | 1979 |
| Jonas Lie | 1880-1940 | 1929 |
| Harrie T. Lindeberg | 1880-1959 | 1948 |
| Richard Lindner | 1901-1978 | 1972 |
| Jacques Lipchitz | 1891-1973 | 1961 |
| Richard Lippold | 1915-2002 | 1963 |
| Seymour Lipton | 1903-1986 | 1975 |
| DeWitt McClellan Lockman | 1870-1957 | 1931 |
| Louis Loeb | 1866-1909 | 1908 |
| Will Hicok Low | 1853-1932 | 1908 |
| Thomas Nozkowski | 1944-2019 | 2010 |
| I.M. Pei | 1917-2019 | 1963 |
| Cesar Pelli | 1926-2019 | 1982 |
| Kevin Roche | 1922-2019 | 1970 |
| Susan Rothenberg | 1945-2020 | 1990 |
| Robert Ryman | 1930-2019 | 1994 |
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