Carnegie Prize

The First-Class winner's cash prize was accompanied by the Carnegie Gold Medal of Honor (1896), designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J.E.

Caldwell & Co. Often, especially in the early years, the prize-winning painting was purchased for the museum's permanent collection.

In 1982, the exhibition was renamed the Carnegie International, and returned to its original mission of showing recent works by a host of artists.

As of 2019, 67 Carnegie Prizes had been awarded and one was refused (Irish painter Francis Bacon, 1967).

[3] The Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida was awarded it twice (1964 for an individual sculpture, 1979 for his body of work).