The Fine Arts Committee of The National Arts Club


Role in Furthering the NAC Mission

To provide a nexus for members to recognize, support and encourage excellence in the visual arts.

Established in 1905, the Fine Arts Committee is supported and complimented in this mission by the Exhibitions Committee and its chair Natalia Kolodzei as well as the Curatorial Committee. The Curatorial Committee in particular works with a professional curator to oversee the preservation, documentation and exhibition of the National Arts Club Permanent Collection.  If you are a member of the National Arts Club and are interested in joining our committee, please email us at [email protected].
  

Recently Restored Artwork

Louis F. Berneker, Vanity, oil on canvas laid on board – new frame
Edmund Greacen, The Feather Fan, by 1919, oil on canvas – painting conservation
Cover of Ladies Home Journal, 1 March 1911, featuring a reproduction of Harry W. Watrous’s Some Little Talk of Me and Thee There Was – new frame
Philip Little, An Upland Meadow, 1917, oil on canvas – painting conservation
Waldo Peirce, Interior with Mrs. Peirce Sewing, ca. 1916, oil on board – new frame
Reform and Better Times, campaign poster for Samuel J. Tilden – new frame with funds provided by Rebecca Evan-Zohar
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Little Putney, No. 1, 1879, etching - new frame

Exhibiting Artist Membership

The "Exhibiting Artists Members" (aka EAM), is a group of artists selected to Exhibiting Artist Membership through a juried application process. You must be a member in good standing of The National Arts Club in order to be considered for membership. Non-members need not apply. Please download an application here and submit it to [email protected]


Medal of Honor in Fine Arts Recipients


1921 George Bellows
1957    Salvador Dalí
1958    John C. Johansen, NA
1960    Paul Manship, NA
1962    Malvina Hoffman, NA
1963    John Koch, NA
1964    Charles A. Aiken
1965    Salvador Dalí
1966   Chen Chi, NA
1967    Norman Kent, NA and Ogden Pleissner, NA
1968     Isabel Bishop, NA
1969     Tore Asplund, NA and Frank Bensing
1970     John Canaday
1971     Eric Larrabee
1972     J. Carter Brown
1973     Louise Nevelson
1974     Eric Sloane, NA and Thomas Hart Benton, NA
1975     Jose de Creeft, NA
1976     R. Buckminster Fuller, NA
1977     Stewart Klonis and The Art Students League
1978     Xavier Gonzalez, NA
1979     Raphael Soyer, NA
1980     Clement E. Conger
1981     I.M. Pei, NA
1982    Betty Parsons
1983     Robert Motherwell
1984     Alice Neel, NA
1985     James Brooks, ANA
1986     Red Grooms, ANA
1987     Louise Bourgeois, ANA
1988     George Segal
1989     Robert Rauchenberg, NA
1990     Will Barnet, NA
1991     Norman Rockwell Museum
1992   Christo
1993     Jacob Lawrence
1994     Roy Lichtenstein
1995     Marisol
1999    James Rosenquist
2000    Nam June Paik
 2001    Frank Stella 
2002    Dale Chihuly 
2005    Chuck Close 
2006    James Turrell 
2009    Ed Ruscha
2014    Emilia & Ilya Kabakov
2015   Robert Wilson
2016  Faith Ringgold
2018  Lois Dodd
2022        Joseph Kosuth