. International studio. Exhibited at Philadelphia Art Club LIEUT. C. F. WESTING, HENRY R. RITTENBERG. Exhibited alikeSalmagundi Club THE SCOUT BY I. MASSEY RHIXD INTERNATIONALSTUDIO VOL. LXIV. No. 254 Copyright, 1918, by John Lane Company APRIL, 1918 T HEODORE SPICER-SIMSON, MEDALLIST BY W. H. de B. NELSON The art of the medal is so little knownthat it has had scant opportunity of arriving atits deserved point of appreciation. Before mak-ing mention of any particular artist, therefore, itmight be well to call attention briefly to what themedallic art signifies, and for that purpose th
. International studio. Exhibited at Philadelphia Art Club LIEUT. C. F. WESTING, HENRY R. RITTENBERG. Exhibited alikeSalmagundi Club THE SCOUT BY I. MASSEY RHIXD INTERNATIONALSTUDIO VOL. LXIV. No. 254 Copyright, 1918, by John Lane Company APRIL, 1918 T HEODORE SPICER-SIMSON, MEDALLIST BY W. H. de B. NELSON The art of the medal is so little knownthat it has had scant opportunity of arriving atits deserved point of appreciation. Before mak-ing mention of any particular artist, therefore, itmight be well to call attention briefly to what themedallic art signifies, and for that purpose thefollowing quotation from Edward T. Newell,president of the American Numismatic Society,in his foreword to the Spicer-Simson exhibition,seems highly appropriate: Medallic art is at once one of the highestachievements of human genius, as it is one of themost difficult and exacting mediums of artisticexpression. To the obvious points of contactbetween medallic art and the so-called major artof sculpture are to be reckoned, in favour of the former, the added charm that resides in the com-pactness of the form
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