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RALPH MENCONI: BRONZE MEDALS
 by Greg Harper, Executive Director and Curator of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts
 

Bronze busts of John Volkert and Jack Kleinoder of Volkert Stampings, Inc. by Ralph Menconi The medallic work of Ralph Menconi (1915-1972) became nationally known with his series of U.S. Presidents from Washington through Nixon, medals of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence and a commemorative series for every state in the union.  He also did the inaugural medal for President Nixon, memorial medals for John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Winston Churchill as well as the official statehood medal for Alaska.  As a youth, Menconi apprenticed with his father, Raffaelo E. Menconi, an artist who specialized in the kind of monumental sculpture the younger  Menconi started creating after obtaining a degree in fine arts from Yale and further study at the National Academy of Design.  Today some of those larger works can be seen at a number of public sites, including DePauw University, Pace University, the Brookgreen Sculpture Gardens in Sough Carolina, and the Cathedral of Nassau, Bahamas. The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, in an exhibition from April 28 through July 15, 2001, takes viewers through Menconi's process with medals, and showcases a number of his pieces.  In the 1960's, he and his family vacationed frequently on Cape Cod, where his widow, Marjorie Menconi, still resides.

 

This article is co-sponsored by the Cape Museum of Fine Arts.  Be sure to view and participate in all the exciting upcoming events and art shows to take place at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in 1999.  For further information please visit their web site at: http://www.cmfa.org

Cape Museum of Fine Arts P.O. Box 2034 Route 6A Dennis, MA 02638 508.385.4477

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