Welles Bosworth Portrait Medal

Paul Manship, Welles Bosworth Portrait Medal, 1920, bronze, 3 ³⁄₄ in. (9.5 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1965.16.103

Artwork Details

Title: Welles Bosworth Portrait Medal
Artist: Paul Manship
Date: 1920
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 3 ³⁄₄ in. (9.5 cm) diam.
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Mediums: bronze
Mediums Description: bronze
Classifications: Sculpture
Medal
Subjects: Mythology — classical — Graces
Allegory — arts and sciences — architecture
Portrait male — Bosworth, Welles — bust
Occupation — art — architect
Figure female — full length
Figure female — nude
Object Number: 1965.16.103
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1965.16.103

Artwork Description

William Welles Bosworth (1869-1966) was the architect of several buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, as well as a friend of Paul Manship’s. “Bozzy” also designed the New York City headquarters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and in 1914 commissioned Manship to create a wide range of reliefs and sculptural elements for the building. This is one of many medals Manship designed in tribute to his friends and colleagues. The figure of Euphrosyne, or Joy, on the reverse is one of the Three Graces described in classical mythology.