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Walt Whitman
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About this work
Sculptors often create medals to honor famous individuals, and here we see an image of the poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892), who wrote the classic Leaves of Grass in 1855. Whitman’s work was a landmark in American literature that celebrated the poetry of everyday life in a young and democratic nation. Paul Wayland Bartlett’s irregularly shaped medal is likely a study for a more finished work.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineWalt Whitman. modeled ca. 1887-1889. Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III. CC0.
