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April 2, 2010 Signature Art Medals is now a recommended art resource on ArtSlant, a contemporary art resource network.
February 25, 2010 To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the speech that launched Abraham's Lincoln presidential bid, The Cooper Union recreated this most influential speech in the Great Hall. Featuring acclaimed actors Richard Dreyfuss, André De Shields, Kathleen Chalfant, and Stephen Lang; former New York Governor Mario Cuomo; and Lincoln scholars Harold Holzer and Frank Williams, retired Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the entire speech was read aloud. As part of the ceremony, Signature Art Medals presented The Cooper Union with one the first castings of our Cooper Union Address medal. During the presentation, the medal lay on the very podium from which Lincoln delivered his address almost 150 years ago.
February 10, 2010 Mark Schlepphorst visits the C.A. Brown Foundry in Providence, RI, to see the casting of the first Cooper Union Medals. He is joined by Frank Williams , a Commissioner of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to witness the lost wax method of casting using by craftsman and owner Steve Brown.
January 8, 2010 Company founder Mark Schlepphorst and artist Joel Iskowitz meet Harold Holzer at his office at the Museum of Modern Art to review design sketches for the Cooper Union Address Medal. Holzer suggests Signature Art Medals participate in the commemorative event of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address to be held at the Great Hall on Feb. 25, 2010.
December 7, 2009 Signature Art Medals announces new lithograph commemorating the "Inspiration of the Lincoln Cent" by Joel Iskowitz. It features Roosevelt sitting for Brenner's portrait sketches in preparation for the Panama Canal Service Medal.
July 23, 2009 Medallic Art Company purchased by Northwest Terrorial Mint. Medallic Art Company provided the orginal Brenner Lincoln galvano design the the "My Mind Was Full of Lincoln Medal."
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Look here for Products currently in development by Signature Art Medals.
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Lincoln at Cooper Union by Joel Iskowitz
- Lithograph Concept Sketch
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Welcome To Signature Art Medals
Signature Art Medals grew from the founders' passion for this amazing art that can be produced in rare medal form. The field is old as the Renaissance - when Pisanello created his first cast medal - to the latest issues of national mints and the collectors' issues coming from the studios and ateliers of medallic artists around the world.
As founders we believe we can make a significant contribution to this field by guiding the creation and production of highly selected medallic issues. We have gathered a team of leading organizations and individuals -- the top American medallists -- to aid in these productions. Intended for the medal collector, some of these medallic items will end up in the most prestigious museums for their beauty, quality, creativity, significance, and importance. We pledge to live up to our chosen motto "Knowledgeable Numismatists, Master Medallists, Creative Artists." -- MS, DWJ
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"My Mind Was Full of Lincoln" by Victor Brenner & Don Everhart
- Bronze Medal |
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Honoring the Bicentennial of Lincoln's Birth and the Centennial of the Lincoln Cent, this bronze medal was created two top America medallists: Victor David Brenner, the original designer of the Lincoln Cent and Don Everhart, a current artist very active in the coin and medal field.
Available for immediate delivery.
Collector's Comments:
"It's beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!"
- R.B., First Purchaser, Connecticut.
"The Lincoln / Brenner plaque is beautiful - with wonderful symbolism for the numismatic fraternity."
- Donald G. Tritt, Ph.D., Ohio
I found your Signature Art Plaquette in my stocking this Christmas. I am most pleased. It is a great piece and I have it sitting on a small easel on my computer desk. The patina is lovely! I hope sales are going well and that you will be doing another in the not too distant future.
- Harry Waterson, Missouri
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| $ 229.00 |
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"Inspiration of the Lincoln Cent" by Joel Iskowitz
- Lithograph |
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| Abraham Lincoln as a coin portrait concept is born during discussions between artist Victor D. Brenner and President Theodore Roosevelt, while the elder statesman sits for his portrait destined for the Panama Canal Service Medal. This historic occasion occurred at the president's home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, New York, July 25, 1908, dramatically captured by artist Iskowitz in this fine art lithograph. Available for immediate delivery. |
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| $ 300.00 |
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"Cooper Union Address Anniversary" by Everhart and Iskowitz
- Bronze Cast Medal |
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Commemorative medal for the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address.
Obverse design based on the "Cooper Union photo" by Mathew B Brady, February 27,1860, New York City. Sculpted by Don Everhart.
Reverse design based on period sketches from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspapers. Design by Joel Iskowitz, sculpt by Don Everhart.
Lincoln was perhaps the first president to grasp the media as a campaign tool, and this medal acknowledges that the Brady photo, widely copied and distributed during Lincoln's campaign, and his Cooper Union Address text, also widely published in newspapers, secured Lincoln's nomination and ultimate general election victory to become the 16th president of the United States. |
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| $ 600 |
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