National Medal of Arts is going to Ellsworth Kelly, who turned 90 earlier this year.

The National Medal of Arts, founded in 1984, is the highest award given to artists by the United States Government.

Ellsworth Kelly will receive his medal on July 10 in the East Room of the White House.

Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) has been the subject of major exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and his work is in many public collections, including those of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Tate Modern, London.

Previous recipients of the National Medal for Arts include Georgia O’Keefe, Willem de Kooning Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Diebenkorn, Isamu Noguchi and Jasper Johns.