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Universal Exposition Saint Louis 1904

Medal
1904 (signed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This plaquette issued on the occasion of the St. Louis Exhibition 1904, was made by Adolph Alexander Weinman.
The plaquette was one which was awarded to prize-winners by the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, an exhibition of art held in the Art Palace Louisiana. The handbook of the exhibition (1904) explains, that "the Exposition of 1904 is demonstrating that the instinctive impulse for artistic expression in the various forms of art work is a factor likely to have an important part in our national development'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleUniversal Exposition Saint Louis 1904 (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Bronze
Brief description
Medal, bronze, Universal Exposition Saint Louis, 1904, by Adolph Alexander Weinman, American, signed 1904
Physical description
Obverse: Two female figures in drapery held within a circular cameo. The elder woman looking slightly to the right, her left arm outstretched, holds a flag which bellows behind both the figures. She also holds a corner of the flag in her right arm which is bent. The younger girl has plaits and looks left towards the older female figure. She holds her drapery in both hands. Legend.
Reverse: Centrally on the plaquette within a circular cameo, an eagle stands on a rectangular base decorated with acorn leaves facing left; its wings are outstretched. On the base a legend. Beneath this inscription is a shell. To the left and right of the shell are two Renaissance style dolphins facing inwards to each other. A fleur-de-lils breaks up four segments of rounded-off triangular decoration which surrounds the central cameo.
Dimensions
  • Square length: 6.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'VNIVERSAL.EXPOSITIONN./SAINT.LOVIS.VNITED.ATATES.OF.AMERICA.' (obverse)
  • 'M.C.M.I.V./ A.A.WEINMAN FECT' (obverse, signed)
  • '.SILVER.MEDAL./LOVISIANA.PVRCHASE./EXPOSITION.' (reverse, on the base)
Object history
Given by Professor J. Hull Grundy and Mrs. Ann Hull Grundy, in 1978.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This plaquette issued on the occasion of the St. Louis Exhibition 1904, was made by Adolph Alexander Weinman.
The plaquette was one which was awarded to prize-winners by the Department of Art of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, an exhibition of art held in the Art Palace Louisiana. The handbook of the exhibition (1904) explains, that "the Exposition of 1904 is demonstrating that the instinctive impulse for artistic expression in the various forms of art work is a factor likely to have an important part in our national development'.
Bibliographic references
  • Augustin, Ines, Die Medaillen und Plaquetten der Grossen Weltausstellungen 1851-1904, (Dissertation), Karlsruhe, 1985, pp. 169-170, p. 207; p. 457, no. 620
  • Forrer, L. Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, VIII, 1930, pp. 266-270
Collection
Accession number
A.94-1978

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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