Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Contemporary Arts Patron and Philanthropist
2011 National Medal of Arts recipient and contemporary arts patron and philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer receives her medal from President Barack Obama at an East Room ceremony at the White House on February 13, 2012. Photo by Anthony Brown, Imigination Photography.
Bio
Emily Rauh Pulitzer has dedicated herself to connecting art and viewers through her generosity in caring for well-established institutions like the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Harvard Art Museums, and The Museum of Modern Art; as well as having the vision to create a new destination in St. Louis with the founding of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.