Artwork Details
- Title
- Mark Hopkins Medal
- Artist
- Founder
- Medallic Art Company
- Date
- 1963
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 3 in. (7.7 cm) diam.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Renier
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- bronze
- Keywords
- Figure group — male
- Landscape — tree
- Occupation — education — teacher
- Recreation — leisure — reading
- Portrait male — Hopkins, Mark — bust
- Object — written matter — book
- Object Number
- 1967.93.42
Artwork Description
Joseph Renier created this medal for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University. Mark Hopkins was an 1824 graduate of Williams College, a professor from 1830 to 1887, and the college’s president from 1836 to 1872. For the reverse of this medal, Renier noted that he wanted to portray “The teacher and the pupil close to the beauties of Nature---talking, thinking, discussing from the book of experience---the future before them both.”