Academy Gold Medal Winners

The Academy Gold Medal of Honor was founded by Mr. John H. Converse in 1893. This award was not an award of the Annual Exhibitions. It was an award for general achievement in the profession.

The award was initially awarded annually, but eventually phased out. 

Converse

John H. Converse - Giuseppe Donato (Accession #1914.19)

Pennsylvania Academy Gold Medal of Honor

Pennsylvania Academy Gold Medal of Honor - Daniel Dupuis

 

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  1. 1893 D. Ridgway Knight
  2. 1894 Alexander Harrison
  3. 1895 William M. Chase
  4. 1896 Winslow Homer
  5. 1897 Edwin A. Abbey
  6. 1898 Cecilia Beaux
  7. 1899 Charles Grafly
  8. 1900 Henry J. Thouron
  9. 1901 James A. McNeil Whistler
  10. 1902 John S. Sargent
  11. 1903 John W. Alexander
  12. 1904 William T. Richards
  13. 1905 Violet Oakley
  14. 1906 Horatio Walker
  15. 1907 Edward W. Redfield
  16. 1908 Edmund C. Tarbell
  17. 1909 Thomas P. Anshutz
  18. 1911 Willard L. Metcalf
  19. 1914 Mary Cassatt
  20. 1915 Edward H. Coates
  21. 1916 J. Alden Weir
  22. 1918 John McClure Hamilton
  23. 1919 Hugh H. Breckenridge
  24. 1920 Childe Hassam
  25. 1926 Frank W. Benson
  26. 1929 Daniel Garber
  27. 1929 C. Paul Jennewein
  28. 1939 Alfred G. B. Steel
  29. 1949 Franklin C. Watkins
  30. 1949 Walker Hancock
  31. 1953 George Harding
  32. 1953 Joseph T. Fraser Jr.
  33. 1955 William Clarke Mason
  34. 1955 John F. Lewis Jr.
  35. 1959 Francis Speight
  36. 1961 Andrew Wyeth
  37. 1966 Henry S. McNeil
  38. 1975 John Gribbell II
  39. 1977 Bonnie Wintersteen
  40. 1979 Robert Motherwell
  41. 1979 Charles E. Mather III
  42. 1984 Louise Bourgeois
  43. 2004 Helen Frankethaler
  44. 2005 R. B. Kitaj
  45. 2005 Helen Frankethaler