Peace | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1657.14
People: 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

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

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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.

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