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SOM#019, Edward McCartan, War in the Old World, Peace in the New World, 1939
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From the collection of John Birks
Numbers Issued: 943 bronze, 100 silver
FROM THE ARTIST
The broad Atlantic Ocean thankfully isolates us from forces which destroy life and liberty and which impede the normal pursuit of happiness.
I have attempted to portray the fortunate position of the American home maker contrasted with her European sister who lives from day to day in a paralysis of fear and hate and regimentation.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Pestilence, Death, Famine, War -- are riding high across the Eastern Hemisphere.
I hope that in design and execution the medal has merit not only because it symbolizes the social forces which influence the lives of the Old World peoples and the New World peoples but also because it is a permanent, artistic record of rapid fire events in 1939.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edward McCartan was born in Albany, New York, in 1979. He was a pupil of the Art Students League, New York City; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn under the tutelage of Herbert Adams, who with Hermon MacNeil and George Gray Barnard most greatly directed the formative period of his sculptural studies.
Member: National Academy of Design, became an Academician in 1925; National Sculpture Society, New York Architectural League, Beaux Arts Institute.
[Awards: Barnett Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design, 1912; McClees Prize, 1913; Widener Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1916; Medal of Honor for Sculpture, New York Architectural League, 1923; Gold Medal of Honor, Concord art Association; Pratt Prize, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1931; Gold Medal of Honor Allied Art Association, 1933.
Represented in Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo; Metropolitan Museum, New York City; City Art Museum, St. Louis; Albright Gallery, Buffalo; Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
Works: Most familiar are his heroic figures of Transportation and Industry supporting the gigantic clock on the facade of the Grand Central Station, Forty-Second Street side, New York City; Diana, Metropolitan Museum; Isoult, Girl With Goat, Nymph and Satyr. The Eugene Field Memorial in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is one of his outstanding monuments.
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![SOM#019, Edward McCartan, War in the Old World, Peace in the New World, 1939
[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 943 bronze, 100 silver[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
The broad Atlantic Ocean thankfully isolates us from forces which destroy life and liberty and which impede the normal pursuit of happiness.
I have attempted to portray the fortunate position of the American home maker contrasted with her European sister who lives from day to day in a paralysis of fear and hate and regimentation.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Pestilence, Death, Famine, War -- are riding high across the Eastern Hemisphere.
I hope that in design and execution the medal has merit not only because it symbolizes the social forces which influence the lives of the Old World peoples and the New World peoples but also because it is a permanent, artistic record of rapid fire events in 1939.
[b]ABOUT THE ARTIST[/b]
Edward McCartan was born in Albany, New York, in 1979. He was a pupil of the Art Students League, New York City; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn under the tutelage of Herbert Adams, who with Hermon MacNeil and George Gray Barnard most greatly directed the formative period of his sculptural studies.
[i]Member:[/i] National Academy of Design, became an Academician in 1925; National Sculpture Society, New York Architectural League, Beaux Arts Institute.
[Awards:[/i] Barnett Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design, 1912; McClees Prize, 1913; Widener Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1916; Medal of Honor for Sculpture, New York Architectural League, 1923; Gold Medal of Honor, Concord art Association; Pratt Prize, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1931; Gold Medal of Honor Allied Art Association, 1933.
Represented in Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo; Metropolitan Museum, New York City; City Art Museum, St. Louis; Albright Gallery, Buffalo; Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
[i]Works:[/i] Most familiar are his heroic figures of Transportation and Industry supporting the gigantic clock on the facade of the Grand Central Station, Forty-Second Street side, New York City; Diana, Metropolitan Museum; Isoult, Girl With Goat, Nymph and Satyr. The Eugene Field Memorial in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is one of his outstanding monuments.
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[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]
[i]Numbers Issued: 943 bronze, 100 silver[/i]
[b]FROM THE ARTIST[/b]
The broad Atlantic Ocean thankfully isolates us from forces which destroy life and liberty and which impede the normal pursuit of happiness.
I have attempted to portray the fortunate position of the American home maker contrasted with her European sister who lives from day to day in a paralysis of fear and hate and regimentation.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Pestilence, Death, Famine, War -- are riding high across the Eastern Hemisphere.
I hope that in design and execution the medal has merit not only because it symbolizes the social forces which influence the lives of the Old World peoples and the New World peoples but also because it is a permanent, artistic record of rapid fire events in 1939.
[b]ABOUT THE ARTIST[/b]
Edward McCartan was born in Albany, New York, in 1979. He was a pupil of the Art Students League, New York City; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn under the tutelage of Herbert Adams, who with Hermon MacNeil and George Gray Barnard most greatly directed the formative period of his sculptural studies.
[i]Member:[/i] National Academy of Design, became an Academician in 1925; National Sculpture Society, New York Architectural League, Beaux Arts Institute.
[Awards:[/i] Barnett Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design, 1912; McClees Prize, 1913; Widener Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1916; Medal of Honor for Sculpture, New York Architectural League, 1923; Gold Medal of Honor, Concord art Association; Pratt Prize, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1931; Gold Medal of Honor Allied Art Association, 1933.
Represented in Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo; Metropolitan Museum, New York City; City Art Museum, St. Louis; Albright Gallery, Buffalo; Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
[i]Works:[/i] Most familiar are his heroic figures of Transportation and Industry supporting the gigantic clock on the facade of the Grand Central Station, Forty-Second Street side, New York City; Diana, Metropolitan Museum; Isoult, Girl With Goat, Nymph and Satyr. The Eugene Field Memorial in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is one of his outstanding monuments.
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