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Organizational
News and Updates
February, 2008: We note with
great sadness the death of Samuel Pennington. Sam was a tireless
supporter of numismatics with a particular interest in medals.
He ran his own feature, Medals Collector Page of the
Maine Antique Digest, and was a regular contributor
to several other numismatic ventures on the web and in print. I
feel a great personal loss as he was of enormous help in
contributing his expertise to our own website. He will be sorely
missed.
December, 2007:
The Medal Collectors of America will have its semi-annual meeting at
the New York International Numismatic Convention on January 12,
2008, at 12 noon, to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 310 Park Avenue,
New York City. Dr. Ira Rezak will be the featured speaker.
His talk is entitled: A Century of Medals, and
Still Counting : Anniversaries of the Jews in America.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
A new book
entitled Renaissance Medals has been published by the
National Gallery of Art, which houses the finest
collection of Renaissance-era medals in the United States.
The book is authored by John Graham
Pollard, with the assistance of his wife, researcher Maria
Pollard, and of National Gallery of Art associate curator of
sculpture, Eleonora Luciano. This comprehensive catalogue
is available as a two-volume set covering 957 medals.
A lecture on these
medals will be held on January 20, 2008 at the East Building
Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.
For
more information on this wonderful publication and lecture, see
http://www.nga.gov/press/2007/syscat.shtm
Please
note that Graham Pollard, considered to be the leading authority
on Italian Renaissance medals in the post-war period, died
December 2007. For more on the life and works of this
historic figure of medallic art see:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3276263.ece
November,
2007: The Medal Collectors of America issues it
Annual Awards: The Carl
Carlson Award to David T. Alexander and the Gloria Stamm
Chamberlain Award to Leonard Augsburger. Hearty
congratulations to both!
October,
2007: Links to several Medal
Collections on the Web
that may be of interest to medal collectors have been added to
the MCA Website. They can be reached by clicking on
Medal Collections on the Web on the left bar.
October,
2007: Links to a number of
Medal Organizations important
to medal collectors have been added to the MCA Website.
They can be reached by clicking on Medal Organizations on
the left bar.
July, 2007: Links to
Annotated Lists of Bibliographic Material Relating to Medals
have been added to the MCA Website (Compiled by Sam Pennington
and Ben
Weiss).
June, 2007: Thanks to Heath MacAlpine, who
generously provided the images, and Sam Pennington, who posted
them, we have added images to the
Society of Medallists Series of Medals to complete the
series and are in the process of completing the
Hall of Fame for Great Americans Series.
May, 2007: Thanks to Sam Pennington, additional images of
medals were posted to the
American Art-Union Series of Medals.
April, 2007: Thanks to Sam Pennington, back issues of the
MCA
Advisory were posted to the MCA website as PDF files.
March, 2007: Ben
Weiss appointed as new Webmaster for the MCA Website. His
major goals are to make it more useful and widen its readership
by updating it and broadening its scope.
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