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SCUDDER, Janet

Terre Haute, IN, USA 1869 - Rockport, MA, USA 1940

Centenaire de l'admission de l'Indiana dans l'Union 1816-1916

Indiana Centennial (Admission of Indiana to the Union 1816-1916)

1916

bronze

medal and plaquette

Dimensions (HxWxD): D. 2 716; weight: 0,183 lbs

obverse:
inscribed at right: THE ADMISSION / OF INDIANA / TO THE UNION
signed at lower left: JANET SCUDDER
reverse:
around the circumference: INDIANA 1816 1916

Acc. No.: 2001.87.29583

Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery / http://artgallery.yale.edu

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Provenance

  • 2001,Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection

Bibliography

  • Museum's website (accessed August 2017)

Comment

  • Text from Indianapolis Museum of Art (July 17, 2019):
    The official medal commemorating Indiana’s centennial in 1916 presents an allegorical image of the Union as a draped Goddess of Liberty welcoming the new state, depicted as a young child. In the background are the original statehouse in Corydon and the tree known as the Constitutional Elm.
    Indiana native and distinguished sculptor Janet Scudder was commissioned to create the medal, which she rendered with an elegant treatment of the figures and surrounding laurel wreath.
    The reverse of the medal is based on the state seal, with a buffalo, a woodsman, and light radiating from a rising sun.