Artwork Details
- Title
- Horace Vaughan Winchell Medal (obverse)
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1924-1930
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 2 1⁄2 in. (6.5 cm) diam.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Anthony de Francisci
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- brass
- Keywords
- Portrait male — Winchell, Horace Vaughan — bust
- Object Number
- 1966.51.70
Artwork Description
The Winchells were a family of prominent geologists and researchers from Minnesota. Father Newton Horace (1839-1914) was editor of American Geologist, and with his son Horace Vaughan (1865-1923) wrote The Iron Ores of Minnesota, which was published in 1891. Another son, Alexander, was a geology professor at the University of Wisconsin. Horace was the chief geologist for the Great Northern Railway headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. Anthony de Francisci created this uniface sample for a proposed medal.