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	§1. The Attitude of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. XXX. The English Language in America. Vol. 18. ...
		The Attitude of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		ON 22 February, 1917, the American Academy of Arts and Letters sat to consider its duty toward the English language in America.
		The published reports of the session proclaim its“academic” character in that nothing resembling a plan of action was proposed.
	www.bartleby.com /228/0701.html (238 words)

	American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
		The National Institute of Arts and Letters, founded in 1898, served as the parent body for the American Academy of Arts and Letters, founded in 1904, until the two were amalgamated in 1976.
		The members of the Academy confer the Howells Medal, given every five years for a work of American fiction, and the Award of Merit Medal, given in five categories of the arts to a person not affiliated with the Academy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/am/AmerANIAL.html (268 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters - Definition, explanation
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest" in American literature, music, and art.
		Founded in 1898 as the National Institute of Arts and Letters, it changed its name in 1904 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 to its current title.
		Members of the Academy are chosen for life and have included some of the leading figures in the American art scene.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/am/american_academy_of_arts_and_letters.php (238 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Founded in 1898 as the National Institute of Arts and Letters, it changed its name in 1904 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 to its current title.
		There were 250 members in the Institute, selected from among the leading figures in American art and literature, and these members elected 50 members to form the Academy.
		Members of the Academy are chosen for life and have included some of the leading figures in the American art scene.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters (221 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters music winners. (Items
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced the seventeen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $175,000.
		The $7,500 Academy Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement, was given to composers Claude Baker, Daniel Becker, David Liptak and Cindy McTee.
		The Academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts."
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-90307684.html (196 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honorary society of America's most notable artists, writers, and composers.
		Founded in 1904 as an off-shoot of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which had been founded six years earlier, the Academy merged with the Institute in 1976.
		Membership in the Academy is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
	www.brouwermusic.com /AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters.htm (206 words)

	American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		American Academy of Arts and Sciences--History, Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Periodical)--History, Periodicals--History
		Arts education--Study and teaching, Curriculum change--Analysis, Education, Higher--Forecasts and trends, Higher education--Forecasts and trends, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Universities and colleges--Management, Universities and colleges--United States
		Judge...a degree in fine arts in 1954 and earned...from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972 and the North...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101228857 (1743 words)

	American Academy in Rome -
		Established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies.
		Time spent at the Academy - stimulated in part by varied walks, talks, tours and trips, a stream of distinguished international visitors and spontaneous table talk - allows residents to enter into informed discourse with this past and to draw upon it for their individual explorations.
		The Academy's Rome Prize winners, the core of a residential community of up to 100 people at any given time, are at the center of a multi-disciplinary environment, where artists and scholars are encouraged to work collegially within and across disciplines.
	www.aarome.org /prize.htm (502 words)

	Artists Unite Issue » Exhibition Review: The American Academy of Arts & Letters
		There aren’t a whole lot of arts venues waaaay uptown that can convince people to venture up to 156th Street (which is downtown for some of us), but the 109-year-old American Academy of Arts & Letters alone more than justifies the trip.
		In substance and spirit, the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at AAA&L, proved to be the perfect antidote to the surfeit and frenzy of the recent glut of art fairs in NYC.
		Academy members, an elite society of 250 of America’s most eminent artists, architects, writers, composers, initially nominated 150 artists for the exhibition, and a selection committee then decided upon the exhibiting artists.
	artistsunite-ny.org /blog/?p=1014 (976 words)

	NewMusicBox
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters' elite pantheon includes many of the greatest contributors to intellectual life in America in the fields of music, art, and literature.
		AAAL awards are named for their benefactors, and many of them are in the name of Charles Ives, whose wife donated all royalties earned from performances of his music to the Academy.
		For Bresnick, this has included the publication of his catalog by Carl Fischer, completion of four major works, the CD release of his Opera Della Musica Povera, a residency at the American Academy in Rome (he was a Rome Prize winner in 1976), and soon a residency at the American Academy in Berlin.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=725 (1038 words)

	BU Today \| Archives \| Rosanna Warren elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
		Membership in the honorary academy is among the highest recognitions of artistic merit in the United States and is limited to 250 individuals, with new members elected only as vacancies occur.
		In 1997, Warren was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and in the fall of 2000 was the New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=37326 (754 words)

	American Academy of Arts & Letters
		The Academy has mounted three previous exhibitions of his work: a memorial show in 1963, an exhibition of landscape and still-life paintings in 1969, and a sale of paintings and drawings in 1984.
		The Academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts." Each year, the Academy honors over 50 artists, architects, writers, and composers (who are not members) with cash awards.
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters is located in two landmark buildings, designed by McKim, Mead and White and by Cass Gilbert, on Audubon Terrace at 155th Street and Broadway.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa88.htm (1003 words)

	BMI.com \| BMI Composers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
		BMI Composers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
		Congratulations to BMI composers Robert Beaser and Bernard Rands who have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		An annual election is held to fill vacancies in the Academy's membership of 250 American artists, architects, writers and composers.
	www.bmi.com /news/entry/233977 (218 words)

	Steven Stucky honored
		Cornell composer elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
		Major American orchestras have commissioned Stucky's music, which has been performed across the United States and Europe, and he is host of the New York Philharmonic's "Hear and Now" concerts.
		Cornell-affiliated members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters include novelist and professor Alison Lurie; composer and professor emeritus of music Karel Husa; and composers Steve Reich and Christopher Rouse, both Cornell alumni.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April07/StuckyAAAL.html (302 words)

	Archives of American Art - American Academy of Arts and Letters records, 1864-1942
		Organized 1904, incorporated 1914; New York, N.Y. The American Academy of Arts and Letters was established "to afford recognition to distinguished achievement in literature and the fine arts...." [The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters merged on Dec. 30, 1976].
		The Hassam papers are particularly voluminous, with letters from John Taylor Arms, E. Blashfield, William Merritt Chase, Royal Cortissoz, J. Alden Weir, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood.
		Location of Originals: Originals in American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y. This is a collection of miscellaneous papers representing a gathering over the years of unsolicited documentary resources on American art given or addressed to the Academy.
	www.aaa.si.edu /collections/collections_list.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/6959/search_letter/A (256 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters New York City - JimsDeli NYC Guide
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters is the progeny of the 1976 merger between the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		The Academy's permanent collection consists of works by its members, among them Mark Twain, Woodrow Wilson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Eugene O'Neill.
		The Academy's exhibition schedule is based on its membership cycle.
	www.jimsdeli.com /new-york-city-museums/110_n/academy-institute.htm (153 words)

	American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters — FactMonster.com
		American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters — FactMonster.com
		American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, honorary academy of notable American artists, writers, and composers.
		National Institute of Arts and Letters - National Institute of Arts and Letters: National Institute of Arts and Letters: see American...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0803658 (274 words)

	Bard College Press Releases - Full Story
		Awarded every three years to an American composer of exceptional talent, the $225,000 prize is meant to free the recipient up from any salaried position for three years in order to devote time solely to composing.
		It is a great boon to him and potentially to American music.” Nominations for the Academy’s awards come from the 250 members of the Academy—painters, sculptors, architects, writers, and composers; no other nominations or applications are accepted, with the exception of the Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater.
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters, chartered by Congress, was established in 1898 to “foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts.” Founding members included William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Childe Hassam, Henry James, Edward MacDowell, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Vedder, and Woodrow Wilson.
	www.bard.edu /news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=1140 (858 words)

	Articles and essays indexed by non-profit art academy, association, atelier or society name
		Boston Athenaeum partnered with the Forum Network for a series of lectures on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum.
		An art historian and curator, he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art.
		The Academy and Art in America, (1 hour, 5 minutes) a lecture about the role of the formal art academy in the development of American art and art criticism.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsassn.htm (468 words)

	The Creative Eye
		He was born in New York City and received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree from New York University.
		Shapiro has received numerous honors including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Merit Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
		He was elected to the Swedish Royal Academy of Art in 1994, and to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/creativeeye/joel.html (384 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The $5000 Jimmy Ernst Award in Art, established by Dallas Ernst in memory of her husband, is given to a "painter or sculptor whose lifetime contribution to his or her vision has been both consistent and dedicated." This year’s award will be given to LYNDA BENGLIS.
		After the death of the American Impressionist painter, Childe Hassam (1859-1935), his widow, Maude Hassam, began this program with a bequest of over 400 of his works, with the stipulation that the accumulated income from their sale be used to establish a fund to purchase paintings and works on paper.
		The Academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts." Each year, the Academy honors over 50 artists, architects, writers, and composers with cash awards.
	www.artsandletters.org /index.php?page=press_releases&release=27 (1623 words)

	Forgotten masterpiece to be displayed at Griswold - The Boston Globe
		In 1905, the American Impressionist Childe Hassam painted "June," a mysterious picture of three nude women among the blooms of pink mountain laurel alongside the Lieutenant River, near Florence Griswold's rooming house.
		He left specific instructions that his art should be sold slowly so that the academy could buy works by other artists and donate them to other museums.
		The painting was hung in a stairway near the academy auditorium and could only be seen by people who attended a performance at the academy.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/06/03/forgotten_masterpiece_to_be_displayed_at_griswold?mode=PF (650 words)

	Three New Members for Arts and Letters Academy - New York Times
		LEAD: The composer John Cage, the writer Mary McCarthy and the painter Jasper Johns were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters at the organization's annual meeting Friday at its Upper Manhattan headquarters.
		The three artists were chosen by other members of the Academy, which is a part of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
		The composer John Cage, the writer Mary McCarthy and the painter Jasper Johns were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters at the organization's annual meeting Friday at its Upper Manhattan headquarters.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD81030F937A35751C1A96E948260 (265 words)

	Arts & Letters Academy Inducts Columbia Poet Kenneth Koch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arts and Letters Academy Inducts Columbia Poet Kenneth Koch
		The honor is accorded only to 250 Americans in art, literature and music and is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in this country.
		He is an adjunct professor in the writing division of the School of the Arts and a lecturer in English and comparative literature.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss27/record2127.15.html (333 words)

	Eudora Welty Foundation
		Begun in 1925 the award is conferred by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
		American Academy of Arts and Letters 1972 - honorary academy of notable American artists, writers, and composers.
		National Medal of Arts 1986 - Established by Congress in 1984 for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.
	www.eudorawelty.org /new/awards.htm (635 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Letters music winners - Items of Interest - Brief Article American Music Teacher - Find ...
		The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced the seventeen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $175,000.
		The $7,500 Academy Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement, was given to composers Claude Baker, Daniel Becker, David Liptak and Cindy McTee.
		The Academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts."
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_1_52/ai_90307684 (215 words)

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