National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial and Exhibition program

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) · May 17, 1946

Describing the features and proceedings of the Institute's May 17 Ceremonial and Exhibition, held at the Academy Auditorium in New York City; naming the Institute's and Academy's respective directors and councils; noting work by Lillian Hellman, Wallace Stevens, Reginald Marsh, and Charles Ives among many other prominent artists; listing and briefly profiling that year's grant award winners (tick marks flank the names of Richmond Barthé, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Langston Hughes; and naming both institutions' members in the departments of art, literature, and music.