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Our Donors

We gratefully acknowledge the following donors for endowing awards and programs at Arts and Letters:

  • Anonymous gift in honor of E. B. White
  • Jeannette Haien Ballard
  • Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield and Edwin Howland Blashfield
  • Friends of Marc Blitzstein
  • John Malcolm Brinnin
  • Louis Betts
  • Lillian Braude in honor of Michael Braude
  • Emma Beatrice Brunner in honor of Arnold W. Brunner
  • CBS Foundation in honor of Goddard Lieberson
  • Roy Lyndon Danks in honor of Benjamin Hadley Danks
  • Anna Bowman Blake-Dodd
  • Friends of Lukas Foss
  • Margaret French
  • Miriam Gideon
  • Childe and Maude Hassam
  • Archer M. Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntingon
  • Andrew and Barbara Imbrie
  • Christopher Isherwood in honor of E. M. Forster
  • Harmony Ives in honor of Charles Ives
  • Franklin H. Kissner in honor of Harold D. Vursell
  • Dora Koch in honor of John Koch
  • Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond
  • Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence
  • Catherine and Otto Luening
  • James Merrill
  • Addison M. Metcalf in honor of Willard L. Metcalf
  • C. F. Peters Corporation in honor of Walter Hinrichsen
  • Estate of Katherine Anne Porter
  • Paige Rense in honor of Arthur Rense
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Philip Roth
  • Eugene Speicher
  • Mildredons
  • Virgil Thomson Foundation
  • Martha Updike in honor of John Updike
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Amber Lightfoot Walker in honor of Christopher Lightfoot Walker
  • Katherine Lane Weems
  • Tappan Wilder and Catharine Wilder Guiles in honor of Thornton Wilder
  • C. Vann Woodward
  • Morton Dauwen Zabel and Harold Strauss
  • Gardner Sym

We gratefully acknowledge the following for recent generous gifts in support of awards, exhibitions and public events at Arts and Letters.

  • Anonymous (4)
  • Jeremiah Barondess
  • A. E. Benenson
  • Deborah Berke*
  • Olivier Berggruen
  • Christine Bernstein
  • William Bolcom*
  • Galerie Buchholz
  • Ron Chernow*
  • Cowles Charitable Trust
  • Susan & Thomas Dunn
  • Mary Frank*
  • Hillman Foundations
  • Charles Gaines*
  • Michael Hershaft
  • Stephen Jaffe*
  • Wolf Kahn Foundation
  • Tania Leon*
  • Annea Lockwood*
  • Low Road Foundation*
  • Michael Maltzan*
  • Richard Meier*
  • Toshiko Mori*
  • Sigrid Nunez*
  • Laura Owens*
  • Ann Patchett*
  • Patrick Collins
  • MAP Fund
  • Maria Schneider*
  • Stacy Schiff*
  • Arlene Shechet*
  • Kiki Smith*
  • Sharon Sutton*
  • Margaret Sullivan
  • Alyssa Timin
  • Billie Tsien*
  • Anne Townsend
  • Ed Ruscha*
  • David Rakowski*
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation
  • Peter Russo
  • Shulamit Ran*
  • Miyoung Yoon
  • Windhover

Asterisks denote Arts and Letters members. (*Gifts of $100 or more as of December 31, 2025. Please contact development@artsandletters.org with any corrections.)

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Galleries Audubon Terrace Broadway between West 155 and 156 Streets New York, NY 10032

Open Thursday–Sunday, 12–6pm

Office 633 West 155 Street New York, NY 10032

Office open by appointment

(212) 368-5900
info@artsandletters.org