The first commissioned biographies of artists started to appear.
These include the first commissioned works of Mr. MacKay's tenure, which began in 2008.
The statue was the first commissioned by Congress in 140 years.
Peirene's first commissioned fiction book addressing urgent political topics via literature.
Last June Ehren Watada, an army first lieutenant, became the first commissioned officer to refuse to serve in Iraq.
As the program grew, more venturesome and abstract artists were added to the realists first commissioned, including Robert Rauschenberg.
He was only the second artist (Louise Bourgeois was the first) commissioned to work in that enormous, newly renovated space.
The translation used here by Edmund Tracey was first commissioned for an English National Opera production in 1973.
His 1991 opera, "The Ghosts of Versailles," was the Metropolitan Opera's first commissioned piece in 25 years.
More important for visual artists, the woodcuts accompanying Brandt's satirical allegory were the first commissioned works created by Albrecht Dürer, one of Europe's great Renaissance printmakers.
It's the first commissioned sculpture by a woman in New York Emma Stebbins, the sister of the parks board president and a lesbian".
