Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Medal
Object Number:
INV.3564
Date:
1945
Medium:
Gilt bronze
Dimensions:
diameter: 3 in. ( 7.6 cm )
Marks:
Inscription: obverse, at lower right of field: "J.R.S."
Inscription: reverse, above exergual line, at lower left: "SINNOCK"
Description:
Gilt bronze struck medal with obverse depicting clothed bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt facing right; legend above: "PRESIDENT.of.the.UNITED. STATES"; inscription at left of field: "FRANKLIN/DELANO/ROOSEVELT." Reverse depicts seated mourning female figure, with palm branch and laurel wreath, with sailing ship and cemetery tombstones with crucifixes in background; legend above: "FOR COUNTRY AND HUMANITY"; inscription at left of field: "INAUGURATED/PRESIDENT/MAR. 4 1933/JAN, 20 1937/JAN, 20 1941/JAN. 20 1945/DIED/APRIL/12.1945"; in exergue: "IN MEMORIAM."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
