Salmagundi medal of honor (honor et meritus)
SAL record control number: 86000 ;
Record level: Listing ;
Record type: Awards & prizes ;
Title: Salmagundi medal of honor (honor et meritus) ;
Begin Date: 1938 ;
End Date: n/a ;
Description / background:
Salmagundi medal of honor (honor et meritus) is given to those individual(s) or organization(s) who have made important contributions to the arts. The honoree can be a Salmagundi member or a non-member. The winner of the medal is usually presented at a yearly dinner run by the President of the club and may, if the board of directors grants be moved to the status of Emeritus. The president’s dinner typically is one of the important fund raising gala’s for the organization. Approximately a five to fifteen minute speech or presentation is given by the honoree. There can be one or several winners of the medal for each year.
The first recipient of the medal was Samuel Twybill Shaw (1860-1945) [RP 1894-1945] in 1938 in honor of his philanthropic championing of artists. Shaw supplied a great number of awards for Salmagundi and other New York City arts clubs.
The beautiful medal was designed by Salmagundi member Ulysses Anthony Ricci (1888-1960) [RA 1935-1960], an American medallion and architectural ornamental sculptor, in about 1937. Ricci was the artist responsible for the buffalo-head coin for the US mint. The winner of the award has their name added to a continuing placard kept at the club.
2019 | Claudia Ruth Hultgren Seymour
2019 | Charles Yoder
2018 | Carole Teller
2018 | John R. Morehouse
2016 | A. Jon Prusmack
2015 | Sylvia Maria Glessman
2014 | John Stobart
2013 | Pam Singleton
2013 | Tom Picard
2011 | John C. Traynor
2009 | Flora B. Giffuni
2008 | Alexander W. Katlan
2007 | Jean Renoir, Jr.
2006 | Norman Rockwell
2005 | Fred March
2004 | Florence Eldrige
2003 | Daniel Greene
2002 | Everett Raymond Kustler
2001 | Art Students’ League of New York
2000 | Frank Mason
1999 | Ranulph Bye
1999 | Schuyler G. Chapin
1998 | Al Hirschfeld
1997 | Diana Kan
1997 | Loring W. Coleman
1996 | John R. McCarthy
1995 | Raymond & Virginia Goldberg
1995 | Paul Cadmus
1994 | Dale Meyers
1994 | Arturo DiModica
1993 | Edward A. Brennan
1993 | Thomas Hoving
1992 | Kenneth W. Fitch
1992 | Edward A. Ames
1991 | Carl L. Thomson
1991 | William M. Gerdts
1990 | Peter Matulavage
1989 | Ruth Reininghaus
1988 | John K. Howat
1987 | William C. W. James
1987 | Malcom S. Forbes
1986 | Elliot Liskin
1986 | Russell F. Rypsam
1985 | Kent Day Coes
1985 | Chen Chi
1984 | Cliff Young
1983 | Mortimer E. Freehof
1982 | Whitney North Seymour
1981 | Peter Bela Mayer
1980 | Mario Cooper
1979 | Philip Kappel
1978 | Robert Harmer Smith
1977 | Jasper B. Adams
1976 | Ogden Pleissner
1976 | Alphaeus P. Cole
1975 | William Lawrence
1974 | Martin Hannon
1973 | George Gray
1971 | John N. Lewis
1970 | Louis E. Seley
1968 | Raymond C. Green
1963 | A. Henry Nordhausen
1963 | Francis V. Kughler
1962 | Harry Levine
1961 | Silvio B. Valerio
1959 | Charles F. Kaegebehn
1957 | Jams A. Obst
1956 | Henry “Henno” Michael O’Connor
1955 | Arthur Carl Friedrichs
1953 | (James) Junius Allen
1952 | William Bernard O’Connor
1949 | Digby William Chandler
1946 | Louis F. Saller
1944 | Alexander James Wall
1943 | Frederick Ballard Williams
1942 | Ringland Fisher Kilpatrick
1941 | Joseph Lauber
1940 | Henry Hobart Nichols, Jr.
1939 | Joseph Siegfried Isidor
1938 | Samuel Twybill Shaw
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Document information
Document permalink:
http://salmagundi.org/awards/?p=86000
Digital-born document number:
SAL.2021.86000
Record birth date:
April 4, 2021
Last updated: March 10, 2023 at 13:53 pm