1976
Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, Rudolf Arnheim, Roman Vishniac
1977
Bill Blass, Lloyd Goodrich, Amory Houghton
1978
Richard Brown Baker, Joan Adams Mondale, Alfred C. Parker, Aileen Vanderbilt Webb
1979
Harry M. Callahan, James B. Houston, Selma S. Pilavin Robinson, Jack Tworkov
1980
Carolyn B. Haffenreffer 62 LA, Alexander Liberman, Robert Motherwell
1981
Gyorgy Kepes, Amy-Bess Miller, Aaron Siskind, Joshua C. Taylor
1982
Antoinette Downing, Jack Lenor Larsen, Perry T. Rathbone
1983
Beatrice Chace, Dorothy C. Miller, James J. Sweeney, Bradbury Thompson, Edward Larrabee Barnes
1984
J. Carter Brown, Murrary S. Danforth, Jr., Jim Dine, Tage Frid, Sheila Hicks
1985
Robert Arneson, John Benson 61 SC, Roy DeCarava
1986
Dale Chihuly MFA 68 CR, Bayard Ewing, Marisol
1987
Gilbert A. Franklin 45 SC, Frank O. Gehry, Albert and David Maysles
1988
John Prip, Yvonne Rainer, Massimo Vignelli
1989
Lalo Schifrin, Cynthia Schira 56 TX, Michael P. Metcalf
1990
Anni Albers, Michael Graves 88 BArch, Louis Malle, Dorothy Hood 40 PT
1991
Liz Claiborne, Jim Henson, John Brinckerhoff, Claiborne Pell, George Morrison
1992
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sam Maloof, Maurice Sendak, Geoffrey Beene
1993
Daphne and Peter Farago 52 TX, Elizabeth Murray 62 AP, Ettore Sottsass, William Jordy
1994
Faith Ringgold, Harvey Stein, June Wayne
1995
Paula Cooper, Carlos Gonzalez Lobo, John Kennedy Marshall, Charlotte Perriand, John Sculley BArch 61
1996
Helen Frankenthaler, Harvey K. Littleton, Houghton P. Metcalf, Jr.
1997
Chuck Close, Peter Geisser, Vartan Gregorian, Virginia Lynch, Antonio Ratti
1998
Malcolm Grear, Hugh Hardy, Se-ok Suh
1999
Rosalind E. Krauss, Eugene Lee 94 PT, Rachel Lambert Mellon, Marc Harrison
2000
Jaroslava Brychtova, Stanislav Libensky, Sidney F. Greenwald, Paula Rego
2001
Gae Aulenti, Louis A. Fazzano, David Hammons, Hermann Junger
2002
Szymon Bojko, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ann Hamilton, Pauline Trigere
2003
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Dave Hickory, Jenny Holzer MFA 77 PT, Jens Risom
2004
Nathan Lyons, David Macaulay BArch 69, Esther Elise (Estise) Metcalf Mauran
2005
Kurt Anderson, Deborah Berke BArch 77, Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans, Yuir Norstein, Eva Zeisel
2006
Jane Chace Carroll, Mel Chin, John O. C. McCrillis 39 GD, Lari Pittman, Kara Walker MFA 94 PT/PR
2007
Richard Leacock, Seth MacFarlane 95 FAV, Gore Vidal
2008
Laurie Anderson, Yo-Yo Ma, Edward Ruscha, Roberta Smith 71 GD
2009
Caterina Fake, Jonathan Ive, Roger Mandle, Betty Woodman, Sir Ken Robinson
2010
Seymour Chwast, Paula Granoff, Art Spiegelman, Ruth J. Simmons
2011
Arnold Berleant, Bill Moggridge, Mierle Laderman Ukeles
2012
Studio Ghibli, Wang Shu, Rebecca Solnit
2013
Karl Gerstner, Maira Kalman, Bill McKibben
2014
Bruce Mau, Todd Oldham, Jean Kennedy Smith 54 TX
2015
John Waters, Adam Gopnik, Jeremiah Harrison, Christopher Frantz 74 PT, Martina Weymouth 74 PT
2016
Hilton Als, Martha Rosler, Esther Wojcicki
2017
Brian Chesky 04 ID, Joe Gebbia 05 GD/ID, Christina Kim, Kehinde Wiley
2018
Cai Guo-Qiang, Annie Leibovitz
2019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Theaster Gates, Bryan Stevenson, Nadya Tolokonnikova