The Marfield Prize
The Arts Club of Washington is honored to announce
the Winner of the
19th Marfield Prize
for outstanding writing
about the arts in 2024 to
Natalie Dykstra
author of
“Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner”
Ms.dykstra will receive $10,000
as the Marfield award winner for 2024.
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List of past recipients of the award are:
- Patrick Bringley for All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me.
- Kira Thurman for Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
- Maggie Doherty for The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (Knopf: 2021).
- Andrew McConnell Stott for What Blest Genius: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare (W. W. Norton & Company: 2019)
- Susan Orlean for The Library Book (Simon & Schuster: 2018)
- Wendy Lesser for “You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2017)
- Rachel Corbett for You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (W. W. Norton & Company: 2016)
- Michael Riedel for Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway (Simon & Schuster: 2015)
- Philip Gefter for Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (Liveright: 2014)
- Sherill Tippins for Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2013)
- Anne-Marie O’Connor for The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Knopf: 2012)
- Yael Tamar Lewin for Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins (Wesleyan University Press: 2011)
- R. Tripp Evans for Grant Wood: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010)
- Linda Gordon for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (W. W. Norton & Company: 2009)
- Brenda Wineapple for White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Anchor: 2008)
- Michael Sragow for Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Pantheon: 2008)
- Jenny Uglow for Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007)
- Scott Reynolds Nelson for Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry — The Untold Story of an American Legend (Oxford University Press: 2006)
