Past Honorees

The Archives of American Art Medal honors distinguished members of the American art community.

2023 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
The Keith Haring Foundation

2022 Peter Brant
Ursula von Rydingsvard

2019 Howardena Pindell
American Academy of Arts and Letters

2018 Sam Gilliam
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

2017 Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Glenn Ligon

2016 Steve Martin
Catherine Opie

2015 Ford Foundation
Robert Gober

2014 Robert E. Meyerhoff
Claes Oldenburg

2013 James Turrell
Alice Walton

2012 Richard Serra
Melva Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy

2011 Cindy Sherman
The Leadership of Ann L. Gund,
Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy W. Luers, Carol Price, &
Eden Rafshoon of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

2010 Mark di Suvero
Sheila Hicks
Don & Mera Rubell

2009   Richard Artschwager
  Douglas S. Cramer
  Jack Lenor Larsen

2008 Ellen Phelan
Joel Shapiro
Joan T. Washburn
Virginia M. Zabriskie

2007 John Baldessari

2006 Paula Cooper

2005 Barbara G. Fleischman & the Fleischman Legacy

2004 Eli Broad

2003 Rita Fraad & Margaret & Raymond Horowitz

2002 André Emmerich

2001 Wayne Thiebaud

2000 Salute to the Founders of the Archives of American Art

1999 Ellsworth Kelly

1998 Robert Hughes

1996 Chuck Close

1994 Agnes Gund

1993 Frank Stella

1991 Roy Lichtenstein

1990 Richard Manoogian

1988 Benjamin D. Holloway

Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History

The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History originated in 1998 by Trustee Barbara G. Fleischman as a tribute to her late husband, who founded the Archives in 1954.

2023 Ruth Fine

2022 Lowery Stokes Sims

2019 Alexander Nemerov

2018 Cécile Whiting

2017 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto

2016 Thomas Crow

2015 William H. Truettner

2014 Teresa A. Carbone

2013 Richard J. Powell

2012 Morrison H. Heckscher

2011 Dore Ashton

2010 William H. Gerdts