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SOM#030, Mahonri Young, Riggers - Riveters, 1944
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From the colletion of John Birks
Numbers Issued: 710 Bronze, 100 Silver
FROM THE ARTIST
The subject came in rather an interesting way. Sometime after 1912 while I was occupying a studio in the Miller Building on 65th St. and Broadway, on the same floor as the Dean of all medalists, John Flanagan, a row of brownstone buildings were torn down in 64th St. My studio had windows on the south so that I could see the operations of tearing down the old buildings, excavating the basement, erecting the steel for the new building, and then the building of the walls and filling in of the floors. That summer I had commissions that had to be done. I found it very difficult to keep my mind on my work and my eyes inside my studio. But I did manage to steal time to do several drawings and a sheaf of sketches. This medal grew out of those drawings and sketches.
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![SOM#030, Mahonri Young, Riggers - Riveters, 1944
[b]From the colletion of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 710 Bronze, 100 Silver[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
The subject came in rather an interesting way. Sometime after 1912 while I was occupying a studio in the Miller Building on 65th St. and Broadway, on the same floor as the Dean of all medalists, John Flanagan, a row of brownstone buildings were torn down in 64th St. My studio had windows on the south so that I could see the operations of tearing down the old buildings, excavating the basement, erecting the steel for the new building, and then the building of the walls and filling in of the floors. That summer I had commissions that had to be done. I found it very difficult to keep my mind on my work and my eyes inside my studio. But I did manage to steal time to do several drawings and a sheaf of sketches. This medal grew out of those drawings and sketches.
Keywords: sold](albums/userpics/10001/SOM%23030-combo.jpg "SOM#030, Mahonri Young, Riggers - Riveters, 1944
[b]From the colletion of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 710 Bronze, 100 Silver[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
The subject came in rather an interesting way. Sometime after 1912 while I was occupying a studio in the Miller Building on 65th St. and Broadway, on the same floor as the Dean of all medalists, John Flanagan, a row of brownstone buildings were torn down in 64th St. My studio had windows on the south so that I could see the operations of tearing down the old buildings, excavating the basement, erecting the steel for the new building, and then the building of the walls and filling in of the floors. That summer I had commissions that had to be done. I found it very difficult to keep my mind on my work and my eyes inside my studio. But I did manage to steal time to do several drawings and a sheaf of sketches. This medal grew out of those drawings and sketches.
Keywords: sold")
