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.
John H. Converse - Giuseppe Donato (Accession #1914.19)
Pennsylvania Academy Gold Medal of Honor - Daniel Dupuis
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- 1893 D. Ridgway Knight
- 1894 Alexander Harrison
- 1895 William M. Chase
- 1896 Winslow Homer
- 1897 Edwin A. Abbey
- 1898 Cecilia Beaux
- 1899 Charles Grafly
- 1900 Henry J. Thouron
- 1901 James A. McNeil Whistler
- 1902 John S. Sargent
- 1903 John W. Alexander
- 1904 William T. Richards
- 1905 Violet Oakley
- 1906 Horatio Walker
- 1907 Edward W. Redfield
- 1908 Edmund C. Tarbell
- 1909 Thomas P. Anshutz
- 1911 Willard L. Metcalf
- 1914 Mary Cassatt
- 1915 Edward H. Coates
- 1916 J. Alden Weir
- 1918 John McClure Hamilton
- 1919 Hugh H. Breckenridge
- 1920 Childe Hassam
- 1926 Frank W. Benson
- 1929 Daniel Garber
- 1929 C. Paul Jennewein
- 1939 Alfred G. B. Steel
- 1949 Franklin C. Watkins
- 1949 Walker Hancock
- 1953 George Harding
- 1953 Joseph T. Fraser Jr.
- 1955 William Clarke Mason
- 1955 John F. Lewis Jr.
- 1959 Francis Speight
- 1961 Andrew Wyeth
- 1966 Henry S. McNeil
- 1975 John Gribbell II
- 1977 Bonnie Wintersteen
- 1979 Robert Motherwell
- 1979 Charles E. Mather III
- 1984 Louise Bourgeois
- 2004 Helen Frankethaler
- 2005 R. B. Kitaj
- 2005 Helen Frankethaler