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| Gold Medals | ||||
| Since 1909 the Academy has awarded Gold Medals for distinguished achievement in several different categories of the arts, including Graphic Art, Painting, and Sculpture. | ||||
| Name | Award | Year | ||
| Mark di Suvero | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 2013 | |
| Cy Twombly | Gold Medal | Painting | 2011 | |
| Ed Ruscha | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 2010 | |
| Martin Puryear | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 2007 | |
| Jane Freilicher | Gold Medal | Painting | 2005 | |
| Chuck Close | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 2004 | |
| Richard Serra | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 2001 | |
| Robert Rauschenberg | Gold Medal | Painting | 1999 | |
| Frank Stella | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1998 | |
| George Rickey | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1995 | |
| Richard Diebenkorn | Gold Medal | Painting | 1993 | |
| David Levine | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1992 | |
| Louise Bourgeois | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1989 | |
| Isabel Bishop | Gold Medal | Painting | 1987 | |
| Jasper Johns | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1986 | |
| Louise Nevelson | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1983 | |
| Raphael Soyer | Gold Medal | Painting | 1981 | |
| Peggy Bacon | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1980 | |
| Isamu Noguchi | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1977 | |
| Willem De Kooning | Gold Medal | Painting | 1975 | |
| Saul Steinberg | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1974 | |
| Alexander Calder | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1971 | |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Gold Medal | Painting | 1970 | |
| Leonard Baskin | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1969 | |
| Jacques Lipchitz | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1966 | |
| Andrew Wyeth | Gold Medal | Painting | 1965 | |
| Ben Shahn | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1964 | |
| William Zorach | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1961 | |
| Charles E. Burchfield | Gold Medal | Painting | 1960 | |
| George Grosz | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1959 | |
| Ivan Mestrovic | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1956 | |
| Edward Hopper | Gold Medal | Painting | 1955 | |
| Reginald Marsh | Gold Medal | Graphic Art | 1954 | |
| James Earle Fraser | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1951 | |
| John Sloan | Gold Medal | Painting | 1950 | |
| Paul Manship | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1945 | |
| Cecilia Beaux | Gold Medal | Painting | 1942 | |
| George G. Barnard | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1936 | |
| Gari Melchers | Gold Medal | Painting | 1932 | |
| Anna Hyatt Huntington | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1930 | |
| Herbert Adams | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1926 | |
| Edwin H. Blashfield | Gold Medal | Painting | 1923 | |
| Daniel Chester French | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1917 | |
| John Singer Sargent | Gold Medal | Painting | 1914 | |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Gold Medal | Sculpture | 1909 | |
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