Under the Foundation's program in Humanities and the Arts, a variety of awards were made during fiscal 1959 to help advance the creative development of individual artists in a number of fields. In some cases, the artists received direct grants-in-aid; in others, funds were provided to support the performance of their works. The individual artists are:

Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers

Grants-in-aid to enable these artists to concentrate upon their creative work.

• Josef Albers, New Haven, Conn., painter

• Elmer Bischoff, San Francisco, Calif., painter

• Hyman Bloom, Boston, Mass., painter

• Edwin Dickinson, New York, N. Y., painter

• Philip Guston, New York, N. Y., painter

• Raoul Hague, Woodstock, N. Y., sculptor

• Conrad Marca-Relli, East Hampton, N. Y., painter

• Reuben Nakian, Stamford, Conn., sculptor

• Theodore Roszak, New York, N. Y., sculptor

• Adja Yunkers, New York, N. Y., painter, graphic artist

Retrospective Shows for Visual Artists

Funds, awarded through the American Federation of Arts, for retrospective shows of the works of mature painters, sculptors, and printmakers.

• Milton Arvey, New York, N. Y., painter

• Andrew Dasburg, Ranchos de Taos, N. M., painter

• Jose de Creeft, New York, N. Y., sculptor

• Lee Gatch, Lambertville, N. J., painter

• Mauricio Lasansky, Iowa City, Iowa, printmaker

• Carl Morris, Portland, Ore., painter

• William Pachner, Clearwater Beach, Fla., painter

• Walter Quirt, Minneapolis, Minn., painter

• Abraham Rattner, New York, N. Y., painter

• Hugo Robus, New York, N. Y., sculptor

• Karl Schrag, New York, N. Y., painter, printmaker

• Everett Spruce, Austin, Texas, painter

Writers of Fiction and Poets

Grants-in-aid to enable these writers and poets to concentrate upon their creative work.

• James A. Baldwin, New York, N. Y., writer

• Saul Bellow, Minneapolis, Minn., writer

• E. E. Cummings, New York, N. Y., poet

• Robert Fitzgerald, Levanto, Italy, poet

• Stanley Kunitz, New York, N. Y., poet

• Bernard Malamud, Corvallis, Ore., writer

• Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville, Ga., writer

• Tillie Olsen, Pacific Palisades, Calif., writer

• Katherine Anne Porter, Washington, D. C., writer

• Theodore Roethke, Seattle, Wash., poet

• Niccolo Tucci, New York, N. Y., writer

Theater Directors and Playwrights

Grants-in-aid to theater directors to help further their creative development.

• William Ball, New York, N. Y.

• Rachmael ben Avram, Berkeley, Calif.

• Herbert Blau, San Francisco, Calif.

• Angus L. Bowmer, Salem, Ore.

• James H. Clancy, Iowa City, Iowa

• Zelda Fichandler, Washington, D. C.

• John Reich, Chicago, Ill.

• Alan Schneider, New York, N. Y.

• Mack Scism, Oklahoma City, Okla.

• Nina Vance, Houston, Texas