Gold Medal
Since 1909 the Academy has awarded Gold Medals for distinguished achievement in several different categories of the arts. The first Gold Medal for Architecture, which includes Landscape Architecture, was given in 1912.
Name
Award
Year
Richard Meier
Gold Medal
Architecture
2008
Edmund S. Morgan
Gold Medal
History
2008
Martin Puryear
Gold Medal
Sculpture
2007
John Updike
Gold Medal
Fiction
2007
Robert A. Caro
Gold Medal
Biography
2006
Stephen Sondheim
Gold Medal
Music
2006
Joan Didion
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres and Criticism
2005
Jane Freilicher
Gold Medal
Painting
2005
Chuck Close
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
2004
John Guare
Gold Medal
Drama
2004
W.S. Merwin
Gold Medal
Poetry
2003
Ned Rorem
Gold Medal
Music
2003
John Hope Franklin
Gold Medal
History
2002
Frank O. Gehry
Gold Medal
Architecture
2002
Philip Roth
Gold Medal
Fiction
2001
Richard Serra
Gold Medal
Sculpture
2001
Lukas Foss
Gold Medal
Music
2000
R.W.B. Lewis
Gold Medal
Biography
2000
Harold Bloom
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1999
Robert Rauschenberg
Gold Medal
Painting
1999
Horton Foote
Gold Medal
Drama
1998
Frank Stella
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1998
John Ashbery
Gold Medal
Poetry
1997
Gunther Schuller
Gold Medal
Music
1997
Peter Gay
Gold Medal
History
1996
Philip Johnson
Gold Medal
Architecture
1996
William Maxwell
Gold Medal
Fiction
1995
George Rickey
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1995
Walter J. Bate
Gold Medal
Biography
1994
Hugo Weisgall
Gold Medal
Music
1994
Richard Diebenkorn
Gold Medal
Painting
1993
Elizabeth Hardwick
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres/Criticism
1993
David Levine
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1992
Sam Shepard
Gold Medal
Drama
1992
David Diamond
Gold Medal
Music
1991
Richard Wilbur
Gold Medal
Poetry
1991
Kevin Roche
Gold Medal
Architecture
1990
C. Vann Woodward
Gold Medal
History
1990
Louise Bourgeois
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1989
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gold Medal
Fiction
1989
Milton Babbitt
Gold Medal
Music
1988
James Thomas Flexner
Gold Medal
Biography
1988
Jacques Barzun
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1987
Isabel Bishop
Gold Medal
Painting
1987
Jasper Johns
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1986
Sidney Kingsley
Gold Medal
Drama
1986
Leonard Bernstein
Gold Medal
Music
1985
Robert Penn Warren
Gold Medal
Poetry
1985
Gordon Bunshaft
Gold Medal
Architecture
1984
George F. Kennan
Gold Medal
History
1984
Bernard Malamud
Gold Medal
Fiction
1983
Louise Nevelson
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1983
William Schuman
Gold Medal
Music
1982
Francis Steegmuller
Gold Medal
Biography
1982
Malcolm Cowley
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1981
Raphael Soyer
Gold Medal
Painting
1981
Edward Albee
Gold Medal
Drama
1980
Peggy Bacon
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1980
Archibald MacLeish
Gold Medal
Poetry
1979
I.M. Pei
Gold Medal
Architecture
1979
Peter Taylor
Gold Medal
The Short Story
1978
Barbara W. Tuchman
Gold Medal
History
1978
Saul Bellow
Gold Medal
Novel
1977
Isamu Noguchi
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1977
Samuel Barber
Gold Medal
Music
1976
Leon Edel
Gold Medal
Biography
1976
Kenneth Burke
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1975
Willem De Kooning
Gold Medal
Painting
1975
Saul Steinberg
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1974
Louis I. Kahn
Gold Medal
Architecture
1973
John Crowe Ransom
Gold Medal
Poetry
1973
Henry Steele Commager
Gold Medal
History
1972
Eudora Welty
Gold Medal
The Novel
1972
Alexander Calder
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1971
Elliott Carter
Gold Medal
Music
1971
Lewis Mumford
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1970
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gold Medal
Painting
1970
Leonard Baskin
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1969
Tennessee Williams
Gold Medal
Drama
1969
Wystan Hugh Auden
Gold Medal
Poetry
1968
R. Buckminster Fuller
Gold Medal
Architecture
1968
Katherine Anne Porter
Gold Medal
Fiction
1967
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Gold Medal
History
1967
Jacques Lipchitz
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1966
Virgil Thomson
Gold Medal
Music
1966
Walter Lippmann
Gold Medal
Essays
1965
Andrew Wyeth
Gold Medal
Painting
1965
Lillian Hellman
Gold Medal
Drama
1964
Ben Shahn
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1964
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Gold Medal
Architecture
1963
William Carlos Williams
Gold Medal
Poetry
1963
William Faulkner
Gold Medal
Fiction
1962
Samuel Eliot Morison
Gold Medal
History
1962
Rogers H. Sessions
Gold Medal
Music
1961
William Zorach
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1961
Charles E. Burchfield
Gold Medal
Painting
1960
E.B. White
Gold Medal
Essays
1960
George Grosz
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1959
Arthur Miller
Gold Medal
Drama
1959
Conrad Aiken
Gold Medal
Poetry
1958
Henry R. Shepley
Gold Medal
Architecture
1958
John Dos Passos
Gold Medal
Fiction
1957
Allan Nevins
Gold Medal
History
1957
Aaron Copland
Gold Medal
Music
1956
Ivan Mestrovic
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1956
Edward Hopper
Gold Medal
Painting
1955
Edmund Wilson
Gold Medal
Essays
1955
Maxwell Anderson
Gold Medal
Drama
1954
Reginald Marsh
Gold Medal
Graphic Art
1954
Marianne Craig Moore
Gold Medal
Poetry
1953
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gold Medal
Architecture
1953
Carl Sandburg
Gold Medal
History
1952
Thornton Wilder
Gold Medal
Fiction
1952
James Earle Fraser
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1951
Igor Stravinsky
Gold Medal
Music
1951
Henry L. Mencken
Gold Medal
Essays
1950
John Sloan
Gold Medal
Painting
1950
Frederick Law Olmsted
Gold Medal
Architecture
1949
Charles Austin Beard
Gold Medal
History
1948
John Alden Carpenter
Gold Medal
Music
1947
Van Wyck Brooks
Gold Medal
Essays
1946
Paul Manship
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1945
Willa Cather
Gold Medal
Fiction
1944
Stephen Vincent Benet
Gold Medal
Literature
1943
Cecilia Beaux
Gold Medal
Painting
1942
Robert E. Sherwood
Gold Medal
Drama
1941
William Adams Delano
Gold Medal
Architecture
1940
Robert Frost
Gold Medal
Poetry
1939
Walter Damrosch
Gold Medal
Music
1938
Charles M. Andrews
Gold Medal
History
1937
George G. Barnard
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1936
Agnes Repplier
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1935
Booth Tarkington
Gold Medal
Fiction
1933
Gari Melchers
Gold Medal
Painting
1932
William Gillette
Gold Medal
Drama
1931
Anna Hyatt Huntington
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1930
Charles Adams Platt
Gold Medal
Architecture
1930
Edwin A. Robinson
Gold Medal
Poetry
1929
George W. Chadwick
Gold Medal
Music
1928
William M. Sloane
Gold Medal
History
1927
Herbert Adams
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1926
William Crary Brownell
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1925
Edith Wharton
Gold Medal
Fiction
1924
Edwin H. Blashfield
Gold Medal
Painting
1923
Eugene O'Neill
Gold Medal
Drama
1922
Cass Gilbert
Gold Medal
Architecture
1921
Charles M. Loeffler
Gold Medal
Music
1919
William Roscoe Thayer
Gold Medal
History
1918
Daniel Chester French
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1917
John Burroughs
Gold Medal
Belles Lettres
1916
Charles William Eliot
Gold Medal
Fiction
1915
William Dean Howells
Gold Medal
Fiction
1915
John Singer Sargent
Gold Medal
Painting
1914
Augustus Thomas
Gold Medal
Drama
1913
William Rutherford Mead
Gold Medal
Architecture
1912
James Whitcomb Riley
Gold Medal
Poetry
1911
James Ford Rhodes
Gold Medal
History
1910
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Gold Medal
Sculpture
1909