2024 Gala
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Join us for the October 29, 2024 Archives of American Art Gala in New York City.
Past Honorees
The Archives of American Art Medal honors distinguished members of the American art community.
2023 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
The Keith Haring Foundation
2022 Peter Brant
Ursula von Rydingsvard
2019 Howardena Pindell
American Academy of Arts and Letters
2018 Sam Gilliam
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
2017 Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Glenn Ligon
2016 Steve Martin
Catherine Opie
2015 Ford Foundation
Robert Gober
2014 Robert E. Meyerhoff
Claes Oldenburg
2013 James Turrell
Alice Walton
2012 Richard Serra
Melva Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy
2011 Cindy Sherman
The Leadership of Ann L. Gund,
Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy W. Luers, Carol Price, &
Eden Rafshoon of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies
2010 Mark di Suvero
Sheila Hicks
Don & Mera Rubell
2009 Richard Artschwager
Douglas S. Cramer
Jack Lenor Larsen
2008 Ellen Phelan
Joel Shapiro
Joan T. Washburn
Virginia M. Zabriskie
2007 John Baldessari
2006 Paula Cooper
2005 Barbara G. Fleischman & the Fleischman Legacy
2004 Eli Broad
2003 Rita Fraad & Margaret & Raymond Horowitz
2002 André Emmerich
2001 Wayne Thiebaud
2000 Salute to the Founders of the Archives of American Art
1999 Ellsworth Kelly
1998 Robert Hughes
1996 Chuck Close
1994 Agnes Gund
1993 Frank Stella
1991 Roy Lichtenstein
1990 Richard Manoogian
1988 Benjamin D. Holloway
The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History originated in 1998 by Trustee Barbara G. Fleischman as a tribute to her late husband, who founded the Archives in 1954.
2023 Ruth Fine
2022 Lowery Stokes Sims
2019 Alexander Nemerov
2018 Cécile Whiting
2017 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
2016 Thomas Crow
2015 William H. Truettner
2014 Teresa A. Carbone
2013 Richard J. Powell
2012 Morrison H. Heckscher
2011 Dore Ashton
2010 William H. Gerdts
2009 Klaus Kertess
2008 Neil Harris
2007 H. Barbara Weinberg
2006 Wanda Corn
2005 Helen A. Cooper
2004 Robert Storr
2003 Barbara Haskell
2002 Linda Ferber
2001 Jules Prown
2000 John K. Howat
1999 Barbara Novak
1998 John Wilmerding
2014 Terra Foundation for American Art
Join us for the October 29, 2024 Archives of American Art Gala in New York City.
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