Widener_Gold_Medal

Widener Gold Medal

Widener Gold Medal

Prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1913-1968)

The George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal was a prestigious sculpture prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1913 to 1968. Established in 1912, it recognized the "most meritorious work of Sculpture modeled by an American citizen and shown in the Annual Exhibition." PAFA's annual exhibitions were open to all American sculptors, but an individual could be awarded the medal only once. Sculptors Paul Manship, Albin Polasek, Malvina Hoffman, Carl Paul Jennewein, Anna Hyatt Huntington, William Zorach and Leonard Baskin were among its recipients.

George Dunton Widener had been a Philadelphia businessman and a director of PAFA. He and his son Harry died in 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic.

The Widener Gold Medal was retired in 1968. Beginning in 1969, PAFA devoted its annual exhibitions solely to work by students in its school.

List of Recipients

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Thomas Anshutz, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
  2. [2]
    Aspiration, from SIRIS.
  3. [3]
    Aspiration, from Albin Polacek Museum & Sculpture Garden.
  4. [4]
    Spirit of the Woods, from Christie's, 24 May 2007, Lot 8.
  5. [5]
    Flower of the Alps, from Sotheby's, 2 October 2015, Lot 75.
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    Penguins, from SIRIS.
  7. [7]
    Robin R. Salmon, Sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens.
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    The Offering, from SIRIS.
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    The Future, from SIRIS.
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    The Future
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    Seaweed Fountain, from SIRIS.
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    Sea Horse Sundial, from SIRIS.
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    Sea Horse Sundial is illustrated on p. 14: Ferargil Galleries, Sculpture for the Garden, exhibition catalogue (no date). from Frick Art Reference Library.
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    Volupte, from SIRIS.
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    Volupté, from Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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    Toivo, from SIRIS.
  17. [17]
    Toivo, from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  18. [18]
    Narcissus, from SIRIS.
  19. [19]
    Narcissus, from Charleston Renaissance Gallery.
  20. [20]
    Narcissus, from SIRIS.
  21. [21]
    Narcisse Noir, from SIRIS.
  22. [22]
    Narcisse Noir, from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  23. [23]
    Silver King, from Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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    Black Panther, from SIRIS.
  25. [25]
    Black Panther, from Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  26. [26]
    Tours War Memorial, from SIRIS.
  27. [27]
    Model for Tours War Memorial, from SIRIS.
  28. [28]
    Indian and Eagle, from Brookgreen Collection.
  29. [29]
    Lyric Love, from SIRIS.
  30. [30]
    Lyric Love (scroll down for image), from Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.
  31. [31]
    Mother and Child, from SIRIS.
  32. [32]
    "Wild Boars". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  33. [33]
    The Awakening, from SIRIS.
  34. [34]
    "The Awakening," cover, National Sculpture Review, Spring 1968.
  35. [35]
    Greyhounds Playing, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
  36. [36]
    The Artist's Daughter Gilda, from SIRIS.
  37. [37]
    Gilda, the Artist's Daughter, from Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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    Foreign Trade, from SIRIS.
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    Foreign Trade, from Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  40. [40]
    Foreign Trade, from SIRIS.
  41. [41]
    Tiny, from SIRIS.
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    The American Catholic Who's Who, Volume 7 By Georgina Pell Curtis, Benedict Elder
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    The Birth of a Nation, from SIRIS.
  44. [44]
    National Sculpture Review, vol. 5, number 3, fall 1956, p.6.
    Page en the french Wikipedia : Cecil Howard
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    Rachmaninoff, from SIRIS.
  46. [46]
    Rachmaninoff, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
  47. [47]
    Dawn, from SIRIS.
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    Bianca II, from SIRIS.
  49. [49]
    Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, from SIRIS.
  50. [50]
    Monk at Prayer, from SIRIS.
  51. [51]
    Anthony Lauck Papers, from University of Notre Dame.
  52. [52]
    Hound of Heaven, from SIRIS.
  53. [53]
    Hound of Heaven from TheodoreRoszak.com
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    Voice in the Wilderness, from SIRIS.
  55. [55]
    Voice in the Wilderness, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
  56. [56]
    Bird, from SIRIS.
  57. [57]
    Puma, from SIRIS.
  58. [58]
    Geraldine McCullough, 1917–2008
  59. [59]
    Seated Woman, from SIRIS.
  60. [60]
    Seated Woman, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
  61. [61]
    Gateway, from SIRIS.
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