WASHINGTON—Arts patrons Roy R. Neuberger and Henry Steinway and painters George Tooker and Andrew Wyeth are among the 2007 National Medal of Arts recipients that President George W. Bush announced on Wednesday.

The President will present the National Medals of Arts, the U.S. government's highest award for artists and art patrons, and the National Humanities Medals in the East Room at the White House today.

First Lady Laura Bush, Lynne Cheney, Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia, and Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities Dr. Bruce Cole will join Bush at the ceremony.

The other recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Arts will be: composer Morten Lauridsen, author N. Scott Momaday, theater director R. Craig Noel, guitarist Les Paul, the University of Idaho Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, and conductor Erich Kunzel.

The recipients of the National Humanities Medal, also announced on Wednesday, will be: scholar Stephen H. Balch, author Russell Freedman, author Victor Davis Hanson, philanthropist Roger Hertog, author Cynthia Ozick, historian Richard Pipes, author Pauline L. Schultz, scholar Henry Leonard Snyder, scholar Ruth R. Wisse, and the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art.