1965

George Boas*, Margaret F. S. Glace*, John M. Johansen

1966

Jacob Blaustein*, Theodore Sizer*, John Walker

1967

Harrison E. Salisbury*, Jesse Slingluff*, Clyfford Still*

1968

Louis I. Kahn*, Gordon Parks*, Gertrude Rosenthal*, Henry Holmes Smith*

1969

David Hare*, Jonathan Williams*, Abel Wolman*

1970

Ada Louise Huxtable, Gerald White Johnson*, Fairfield Porter*, Minor White*

1971

Alexander Smith Cochran*, Harold Rosenberg*, Jack Tworkov*

1972

James S. Ackerman, Anni Albers*, Josef Albers*, Dorothy Miner*

1973

Edwin Dickinson*, Ethel Ennis, Grace Hartigan*, Russell Lynes*

1974

Florence H. Austrian*, Alistair Cooke* Robert Motherwell*, Katherine Anne Porter*

1975

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin*, Walker Evans* (posthumously awarded), Joseph H. Hirshhorn*, Raphael Soyer*

1976

Bernard Karpel*, John C. Sawhill*, Grace H. Turnbull*

1977

Romare H. Bearden*, Hayward Cirker*, Robert C. Embry Jr.

1978

Eugene W. Leake*, Dorothy Canning Miller*, Mark di Suvero

1979

Wendell Castle, Jacob Lawrence*, Alice Neel*

1980

Katherine Kuh*, Neil G. Welliver*

1981

Keith Martin*, Mercedes Matter*

1982

Theodore E. Klitzke*

1983

Martin Friedman, Beverly Pepper, Wolf Von Eckardt*

1984

Louise Bourgeois*, Aaron Siskind*

1985

Bernard Chaet, Alonzo G. Decker Jr.*

1986

Rudy Autio*, Roy Rudolph DeCarava*, Elaine de Kooning*

1987

John B. Sutton '63

1988

Siah Armajani, George J. McNeil*, Lowery Stokes Sims

1989

Robert Blackburn*, Elliott W. Eisner

1990

Alvin Eisenman, Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel

1991

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Anne Truitt*

1992

Peter W. Culman, Lenore Tawney*

1993

Robert P. Bergman*, James Melchert

1994

Jane B. Meyerhoff*, Robert E. Meyerhoff, Kweisi Mfume

1995

Hughie Lee-Smith*, David Simon, Mark Strand

1996

Rebecca Hoffberger, Barbara Maria Stafford, Kunihiko Tsukamoto

1997

Robert Colescott*, Gerhardt Knodel, Norman Carlberg

1998

Taylor Branch, Chuck Close, William E. Strickland Jr.

1999

Elizabeth Catlett, Louis Finkelstein*, Francisco Mora, Edward Tufte

2000

Donald R. Greene, Babe Shapiro

2001

Marshall Arisman, Marcella Louis Brenner*, Willis Bing Davis

2002

Howard P. Rawlings*, William Kentridge

2003

Beatrice Levi, John Maeda, Deborah Willis

2004

William Henry Banchs, W. Bowdoin Davis Jr. , Ann K. Hamilton

2005

Mary Schmidt Campbell, Paul Davis, John Roberts

2006

Sam Gilliam, Silas H. Rhodes*

2007

Lennart Anderson, Samuel Hope, Peter London

2008

The Reverend Clifford Canku, Tony Jones, Roger Mandle, Paula Scher

2009

Mel Chin, Joyce E. Robinson

2010

George L. Bunting Jr., Stefan Sagmeister, Gary Vikan, Ron Fidler '64

2011

John Bielenberg, Holland Cotter, Leslie Shepard, Elizabeth Turk '94

2012

William Bailey, Leroy Hoffberger, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Shinique Smith '92, '03

2013

Doreen Bolger, Ellen Dissanayake

2014

Alice Aycock, Sylvia Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Fred Wilson

2015

Robert Farris Thompson, Maira Kalman, Rick Lowe, Alison Saar, Richard Tuttle

2016

Johanna Drucker, Hans Haacke, Ruby Lerner, Pepon Osorio, John Waters

2017

Carla Hayden, Neil Meyerhoff, Barbara Mikulski, Hank Willis Thomas, Lily Yeh

2018

Alice Falvey Grief, Victor Margolin, DeRay Mckesson, Joyce Scott, Carrie Mae Weems