1943.1657.14: Peace
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1657.14
- People
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Albert Theodore Stewart, American (Kensington, England 1900 - 1982 Claremont, CA)
- Title
- Peace
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: ISSUES 1-27 SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS.
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medal
- Date
- 1936
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229327
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 159.84 g, 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: reverse, l.r.: A.S. 1936, Signed Date: 1936
- inscription: Obverse: Peace. Reverse: Man seeks to turn from the savagery of war. 1936. Around edge: Society of Medalists Fourteenth Issue. Medallic Art Co., NY. Bronze
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Presumably from the Society of Medalists to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1936; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1657.14
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Obverse has female figure with wings and olive branch. Reverse has man with plow, crosses marking graves in background. Society of Medalists Fourteenth Issue. The Fogg owns another cast of this medal, 1936.134, and there are casts in the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian.
Verification Level
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