WASHINGTON , D.C.—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and a longtime collector and curator, has been honored with the 2009 Duncan Phillips Award. Said Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski, “We honor Emily Pulitzer for her keen sensibility, infinite generosity, and unyielding commitment to the visual arts.” Pulitzer began her career in the arts as curator at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, later moving on to the St. Louis Art Museum, where she and her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. — publisher and editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — settled and developed both their impressive art collection and their foundation.

Past recipients of the Duncan Phillips Award include Leonard Lauder, David Rockefeller, and Virginia and Bagley Wright.