Guild Hall, New York, NY, February 2020

International Print Center New York, Spring Benefit Dinner Honoree, May 21, 2018

Bowdoin College, Honorary Doctorate, May 2016

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award, May 5, 2009

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Lee Krasner Award, 2003, 2007

Art Omi International, Francis J. Greenberger Award, January 2003

National Academy of Design, Pike Award for Watercolor, 2002

National Academy of Design, Adolph & Clara Abrig Prize for Watercolor, 2002

College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, May 2002

Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant 2002

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, May 2001

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award in Art, May 1999

Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc., Award, 1997

Artist in Residence, Bellagio Study Center, Italy, Spring 1997

Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome, 1991

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Milton and Sally Avery Distinguished Professor, 1986

Brandeis University, Creative Arts Award, 1985

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Visiting Artist, 1984

The Art Institute of Chicago, F.L.M. Witkowsky Painting Award, 1976

National Endowment for the Arts, 1974

Guggenheim Fellow, 1972

Walter Guttman Foundation, 1963

Walter Gutman Emerging Artist Award, 1957

Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC, Entrance Scholarship, 1950

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada, Merit Scholarship

Montreal Museum School, Montreal, Canada, Arthur Lismer Merit Scholarship