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, 1965.16.102

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: Portrait male — Bosworth, Welles — bust
Mythology — classical — Graces
Occupation — art — architect
Allegory — arts and sciences — architecture
Figure female — full length
Figure female — nude
Object Number: 1965.16.102
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1965.16.102

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.