Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Robert P. Perkins (1862-1924) was president of the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company. Paul Manship’s medal shows Perkins as the American Red Cross commissioner in Italy during World War I. On the reverse, the Latin word caritas, or “charity,” accompanies the image of a fatherless family victimized by the war.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Paul Manship, born St. Paul, MN 1885-died New York City 1966
- Sitter
- Robert P. Perkins
- Date
- 1918
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) diam.
- Type
- Sculpture-Medal
