Past Rosenberger Medal Recipients

2010–Present

2019 Jenny Holzer, Artist
2017 Steve Coleman, Composer, Saxophonist, and Educator
2016 Kerry James Marshall, Artist
2015 Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director, The Joffrey Ballet
2014 Josephine Lee, President and Artistic Director, Chicago Children's Choir
2013 Jeanne K. Gang, Principal and Founder, Studio Gang Architects
2012 Anne Bogart, Co-founder and Artistic Director of SITI Company

2000-2009

2010 Earl Von Freeman, Sr., Tenor Saxophonist and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master
2006 William Kentridge, South African Artist

1990–1999

1999 Frederick Wiseman
1998 Pierre Boulez
1992 Sir Georg Solti
1991 Toni Morrison

1980-1989

No award recipients.

1970–1979

1977 J. Irwin Miller
1975 Yehudi Menuhin
1973 Members of the Juilliard String Quartet: Claus Adam, Earl Carlyss, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes
Carol Fox
Paul Fromm
Gerard Piel
Joseph Randall Shapiro
1971 Edward G. Begle
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt
Robert M. White
1970 Edward Pendleton Herring
Harold Joachim
Ralph Winfred Tyler

1960–1969

1969 Frank Miller
1968 Lowell T. Coggeshall
Morris Fishbein
John Schoff Millis
John McFarlane Russell
James A. Shannon
1964 Howard H. Claassen
John G. Malm
Henry H. Selig
1963 Lenox Riley Lohr
1961 George Carol DeHevsey

1950–1951

1959 Edwin G. Nourse
1955 Marshall Field
1953 Fred K. Hoehler
1951 Maurice Goldblatt

1940–1941

1948 Paul Gray Hoffman
1942 Katharine Fredrica Lenroot
1941 Frederick A. Stock
1940 Thomas Edward Wilson

1930–1939

1938 Wendell Meredith Stanley
1934 Dr. Joseph B. DeLee
1932 Edward L. Ryerson, Jr.
1931 Salmon Oliver Levinson

1920–1929

1929 James Henry Breasted
1924 Frederick Grant Banting

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