The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is
Audubon Terrace in Manhattan in April 2008
The bronze entrance doors to the administration building on West 155th Street were designed by Academy member Adolph Alexander Weinman and are dedicated to the memory of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and to the women writers of the United States.
Edward MacDowell
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Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New
American Academy of Arts and Letters
…Samuel L. Clemens, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and John Hay, representing literature; Augustus Saint-Gaudens and John La Farge, representing art; and Edward MacDowell, representing music. The NIAL membership increased in 1904, with the introduction of a two-tiered structure: 50 academicians and 200 regular members…
MacDowell c. 1900
Edward and Marian MacDowell; (c. 1886)
Bronze relief of MacDowell by Helen Farnsworth Mears (1906, cast 1907) Brooklyn Museum
Edward A. MacDowell, US Postage, Issue of 1940