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Senator John Heinz loved poetry, painting, and the art of the essay. He deeply admired creators of works of advanced scholarship. A scholar who obtained a special honors degree in History, the Arts and Letters at Yale University, he respected men and women who help us all understand and value culture's highest achievements.
John and Teresa Heinz collected late 16th- and 17th-century Dutch, Flemish, and German art, as well as 19th- and 20th-century American art. In his honor, Mrs. Heinz provided a major grant to the Yale Art Gallery, where she is a trustee of the Governing Board. Nourishing her own love of the arts, she is a member of the Trustee's Council of the National Gallery of Art, and a member of the board of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
The Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, one of the annual honors, celebrates those who best preserve, teach, and interpret the arts—advancing a spirit of curiosity and faith in the power of the human mind.
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