Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- The Detroit Soldiers Memorial Medal honors veterans killed in World War I. The obverse of Paul Manship’s artist’s strike, or sample, shows a winged female figure holding a sheaf of wheat that symbolizes the harvest of souls and the separation of the righteous from the wicked. The Latin inscription reads “Lived, Conquered, Shall Live.”
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Paul Manship, born St. Paul, MN 1885-died New York City 1966
- Date
- 1919
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) diam.
- Type
- Sculpture-Medal-Sample
