Medal of Award, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
This medal was awarded to leading Ashcan School painter William James Glackens who received a Bronze Medal for his submissions to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, including for The Green Car (37.763). Although Flanagan produced portrait busts and large relief sculptures, he established his artistic reputation as one of this country’s pre-eminent Beaux-Arts medalists. The obverse depicts a male and a female nude flanking a rising sun. They represent the joining of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the Isthmus of Panama. The reverse presents a detailed rendering of Thomas Hastings’s Tower of Jewels, the architectural focus of the fair, behind Alexander Stirling Calder’s Fountain of Energy. They are flanked by palm fronds.
Artwork Details
- Title: Medal of Award, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
- Artist: John Flanagan (American, Newark, New Jersey 1865–1952 New York)
- Date: 1915
- Culture: American
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Susan Corn Conway, in honor of the artist William Glackens and his son Ira, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.934.15
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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