Medal Commemorating the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1916
This bronze medal, titled "Medal Commemorating the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association," was designed by the American artist Robert Tait McKenzie in 1916. Produced in the United States, the circular medal measures 7.6 cm (3 in.) in diameter and features low-relief sculptural composition.
The obverse features a draped athletic male figure standing in profile with one foot elevated, reading a tablet. On the left side of the field is the Latin inscription "MENS FERVIDA IN CORPORE LACERTOSO". To the right, behind the figure, the artist signed the work with an "R.T.M." monogram accompanied by the date "1916". An ornamental section runs along the lower exergue. According to the museum's record, the reverse is inscribed on a ribbon with "To....for scholarship and althletic prowess" and bears the monogram signature "H A A". The medal was gifted to the museum collection by the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
Technical characteristics
- Inscriptions
- Inscribed obverse: Mens fervida in copore lacertoso Signed obverse: R.T.M. [monogram] 1916 Inscribed reverse: [on ribbon] To....for scholarship and althletic prowess Signed reverse: H A A [monogram]
- Maker recorded
- Robert Tait McKenzie, American, 1867–1938
- Place recorded
- United States
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Art Institute of Chicago collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Medal Commemorating the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association
- Museum object number
- 1916.266
Catalogue references
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