Medal for the Society of Medalists 32nd Issue, 1945

1945

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 196.87 g, 12:00, 73 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.87.6434
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: American soldier, helmeted and naked from waist, offering cup in l. to wounded soldier reclining l., and grasping him behind the shoulders with his r. Wounderd soldier is bandaged about head and naked from waist, reclining with r. on (?) rucksack. In exergue artist's cartouche ("BN" in circle) and copyright symbol.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: WORLD UNITY - OR OBLIVION horizontally flanking mushroom cloud above sea of nude corpses.

Provenance

Yale University Library, New Haven Conn., from about 1945 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 382–83, no. 267

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

medals

Marks

Edge: MEDALLIC ART CO. N.Y. BRONZE - THE SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS 32nd ISSUE 1945 - BERTHOLD NEBEL SCULPTOR

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