Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal
The RCA medal was first presented in1962. The medal was designed by the sculptor Cleeve Horne RCA and the designer Syd Watson RCA.
The purpose of this medal is to honour, from time to time, persons who have made notable contributions to the fine or applied arts in Canada.
The following distinguished individuals have been recipients of the RCA medal.
| 1962 | Viljo Revel, architect
Norman McLaren, animator Carl Dair, typographic designer |
| 1963 | Tanya Moseivitch, stage and costume designer |
| 1964 | Yosuf Karsh, photographer |
| 1965 | Allan Fleming, typographic designer
Christopher Chapman, filmmaker |
| 1966 | Duncan MacPherson, cartoonist |
| 1967 | Pierre Dupuy, Commissioner General of Expo '67 |
| 1968 | Julien Hebert, industrial designer |
| 1969 | Group of Seven Painters;
A.J. Casson A.Y. Jackson (posthumous) Franklin Carmichael Lawren Harris Franz Johnston Arthur Lismer J.E.H. MacDonald Frederick H. Varley |
| 1972 | Henry Moore, sculptor |
| 1974 | Pierre Juneau, Retired Chair,
Canadian Radio-Television Commission |
| 1975 | Moncrieff Williamson, Director
Confederation Centre Art Gallery Gerry Moses, Corporate Fine Arts Program Imperial Oil Ltd. Oscar Cahen, painter (posthumous) Paul-Emile Borduas, painter (posthumous) |
| 1976 | Archie F. Key, arts administrator
Douglas M. Duncan, collector (posthumous) |
| 1978 | John Crosbie Perlin, arts administrator
Charles Wetmore, educator, industrial designer Emily Carr, painter (posthumous) Albert Dumouche, printmaker Alan Jarvis, arts administrator (posthumous) |
| 1979 | The Duke of Argyll, in commemoration of the founding
of the Academy in 1880 by his ancestor the Marquis of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll. |
| 1985 | Spencer Clark, collector and philanthropist |
| 1986 | Doris Shadbolt, arts administrator |
| 1987 | Edmund C. Bovey, volunteer, collector, philanthropist |
| 1989 | Joan Chalmers, philanthropist and patron |
| 1990 | Isabel McLaughlin, philanthropist and patron
Greame Ferguson, filmmaker |
| 1993 | Osuitok Ipeelee, sculptor |
| 1994 | Jean Sutherland Boggs, arts administrator |
| 1998 | Frederick Hagen, artist and educator
Alfred Pellan, painter (posthumous) |
| 2000 | Robert Lantos, filmmaker / producer
Lorraine Monk, arts administrator |
| 2001 | Suzanne Rivard Le Moyne, arts administrator, educator |
| 2001 | Isadore and Rosalie Sharpe, patrons |
| 2002 | Catherine Crowston, arts administrator
Ann Davis, arts administrator |
| 2003 | Bernard Lamarre, philanthropist
John Hobday, arts administrator Liliane M. Stewart, philanthropist Jean Dallaire, painter (posthumous) Janine Bombardier, philanthropist David P. Silcox, arts administrator |