Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their "distinguished achievement in the art of illustration". Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and are chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on the field of illustration.
2012
Hall of Fame Inductees: R.O. Blechman, John Collier, Nancy Stahl, Ludwig Bemelmans*, Edward Gorey*, John Sloan*
2011
Hall of Fame Inductees: Fred Otnes, Jerry Pinkney, Kenneth Paul Block, Alan E. Cober, Robert Heindel
Arthur William Brown Recognition Award: Monte Beauchamp
2010
Hall of Fame Inductees: Wilson McLean, Chris Van Allsburg, Charles Edward Chambers*, Earl Oliver Hurst*, Orson Byron Lowell*
Arthur William Brown Recognition Award: Richard Berenson
Dean Cornwell Achievement Award: Scott Bakal and Robert Zimmerman
2009
Hall of Fame Inductees: Paul Davis, Arnold Roth, Mario Cooper*, Laurence Fellows*, Herbert Morton Stoops*
Arthur William Brown Recognition Award: Joyce Rogers Kitchell
Dean Cornwell Achievement Award: Abby Merrill
2008
Hall of Fame Inductees: Benton Clark*, Matt Clark*, Kinuko Y. Craft, Naiad Einsel, Walter Einsel*
Arthur William Brown Recognition Award: Judy and Arthur Zankel
Dean Cornwell Achievement Award: Irene Gallo and Dan Dos Santos
2007
Hall of Fame Inductees: David Grove, Gary Kelley, Edward Windsor Kemble*, Russell Patterson*, George Stavrinos*
Arthur William Brown Achievement Award: Warren Rogers
2006
Hall of Fame Inductees: Gilbert Bundy*, Bradshaw Crandell*, Keith Ferris, Harold Foster*, Frank H. Netter, MD*, Alvin J. Pimsler, Jack Neal Unruh
Arthur William Brown Achievement Award:Nan Lee Roberts
Dean Cornwell Recognition Award:Jill Bossert
2005
Hall of Fame Inductees: Jack Davis, Brad Holland,Herbert Paus*, Albert Beck Wenzell
Arthur William Brown Achievement Award: Murray Tinkelman
2004
Hall of Fame Inductees: John Berkey, John Groth*, Robert Andrew Parker, Saul Steinberg*
Dean Cornwell Recognition Award: Lila Acheson Wallace
2003
Hall of Fame Inductees: Elaine Duillo, David Levine, Bill Mauldin*, Jack Potter
Dean Cornwell Recognition Award: Barnett Plotkin
2002
Hall of Fame Inductees:E. Simms Campbell*, Milton Glaser, Jean-Leon Huens*, Daniel Schwartz
Dean Cornwell Recognition Award: Wendy Popp, Rudy Gutierrez
2001
Hall of Fame Inductees: John James Audubon*, Will H. Bradley*, Howard Brodie, F.O.C. Darley*, Charles R. Knight*, Franklin McMahon
Dean Cornwell Recognition Award: Alice Price
Arthur William Brown Achievement Award: Henry Fleming
2000
Hall of Fame Inductees: James Bama, David Stone Martin, Alice and Martin Provensen*, Nell Brinkley*, Charles Livingston Bull*, James Allen St. John*
1999
Hall of Fame Inductees: Mitchell Hooks, Andrew Loomis*, Antonio Lopez*, Stanley Meltzoff, Thomas Moran*, Rose Cecil O'Neill (Wilson)*, Adolph Treidler*
1998
Hall of Fame Inductees: Edward Penfield*, Frank Frazetta, Martha Sawyers, Kerr Eby*, Robert M. Cunningham, Boris Artzybasheff*
1997
Hall of Fame Inductees: Diane and Leo Dillon, Frank McCarthy , Chesley Bonestell*, Joe DeMers*, Maynard Dixon*, Harrison Fisher*
1996
Hall of Fame Inductees: Herb Tauss, Anton Otto Fischer*, Winsor McCay*, Violet Oakley*, Mead Schaeffer*
1995
Hall of Fame Inductees: James Avati, McClelland Barclay* , Joseph Clement Coll* , Frank E. Schoonover*
1994
Hall of Fame Inductees: Harry Anderson, Elizabeth Shippen Green*, Ben Shahn*
1993
Hall of Fame Inductees: Robert McGinnis, Thomas Nast*, Coles Phillips*
1992
Hall of Fame Inductees: Joe Bowler, Edwin A. Georgi*, Dorothy Hood*
1991
Hall of Fame Inductees: Donald Teague, Jessie Willcox Smith*, William A. Smith*
1990
Hall of Fame Inductees: Burt Silverman, Robert Riggs*, Morton Roberts*
1989
Hall of Fame Inductees: Erté , John Held Jr.*, Arthur Ignatius Keller*
1988
Hall of Fame Inductees: Robert T. McCall, René Bouché*, Pruett Carter*
1987
Hall of Fame Inductees: Maurice Sendak, Haddon Sundblom*
1986
Hall of Fame Inductees: Al Hirschfeld, Rockwell Kent*
1985
Robert Weaver Charles Marion Russell* Arthur Burdett Frost*
1984
Hall of Fame Inductees: Neysa Moran McMein*, John LaGatta*, James Williamson*
1983
Hall of Fame Inductees: Mark English , Noel Sickles* , Franklin Booth*
1982
Hall of Fame Inductees:John Clymer, Henry P. Raleigh*, Eric (Carl Erickson)*
1981
Hall of Fame Inductees: Stan Galli, Frederic R. Gruger*, John Gannam*
1980
Hall of Fame Inductees:Saul Tepper , Howard Chandler Christy*, James Montgomery Flagg*
1979
Hall of Fame Inductees: Ben Stahl , Edwin Austin Abbey*, Lorraine Fox*
1978
Hall of Fame Inductees: Coby Whitmore , Norman Price* , Frederic Remington*
1977
Hall of Fame Inductees: Robert Peak , Wallace Morgan*, J.C. Leyendecker*
1976
Hall of Fame Inductees: John Falter, Winslow Homer*, Harvey Dunn*
1975
Hall of Fame Inductees: Bernie Fuchs, Maxfield Parrish*, Howard Pyle*
1974
Hall of Fame Inductees: Tom Lovell, Charles Dana Gibson*, N.C. Wyeth*
1973
Hall of Fame Inductee: Jon Whitcomb
1972
Hall of Fame Inductee: Ray Prohaska
1971
Hall of Fame Inductee:Stevan Dohanos
1970
Hall of Fame Inductee: Rube Goldberg
1969
Hall of Fame Inductee: Austin Briggs
1968
Hall of Fame Inductee: Peter Helck
1967
Hall of Fame Inductee: Robert Fawcett
1966
Hall of Fame Inductee: Al Dorne
1965
Hall of Fame Inductee: Al Parker
1964
Hall of Fame Inductee: Arthur William Brown
1963
Hall of Fame Inductee: Walter Biggs
1962
Hall of Fame Inductee: Edward Wilson
1961
Hall of Fame Inductee: Floyd Davis
1960
Hall of Fame Inductee: Fred Cooper
1959
Hall of Fame Inductees: Dean Cornwell, Harold Von Schmidt
1958
Hall of Fame Inductee: Norman Rockwell
* presented posthumously
