Artwork Details
- Title
- Ford Motor Company Medal (reverse)
- Artist
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 2 1⁄2 in. (6.4 cm) diam.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Gilda Slate
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- bronze
- Keywords
- Architecture — vehicle — automobile
- Architecture — vehicle — airplane
- Architecture — vehicle — truck
- Architecture — machine — farm machine
- Architecture Exterior — industry — factory
- Object Number
- 1966.110.12
Artwork Description
Anthony de Francisci’s uniface artist’s strike, or sample, represents the reverse of the true medal. Henry Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1903, and by 1928 his giant Rouge manufacturing complex, seen here, had become the most stupendous symbol of America’s technological power. De Francisci also included “portraits” of the Model T, the Model T truck, and the farm tractor, as well as Ford’s famous Trimotor airplane, first produced in 1926.