The Edward MacDowell Medal is a prize awarded annually by the MacDowell Colony to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts. It was established in 1960, and has been given to writers, composers, and visual artists. Recipients have included Joan Didion, Georgia O’Keeffe, I. M. Pei, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Mary McCarthy and Merce Cunningham.

List of medalists

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