Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace dollar was designed by Artist de Francisci, whose wife was his model...
...five-cent piece of 1913 bears the head of Chief Iron Tail of the Sioux tribe, executed by Artist Fraser...
...Artist Saint Gaudens modeled for the U.S. Treasury. He designed a $10 gold piece with a Liberty head, to which, at President Roosevelt's behest, he added an Indian warbonnet. This is known as the Mary Cunningham design- posed by an Irish maid. The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece, showing a full-length Liberty, was modeled from a Swedish woman up to the neck, and the profile head from the Irish model...
...George V, R. I., is naturally harassed by artists anxious to paint his portrait and gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal's uniform on which were pinned many orders, and a cape-all indisputably fresh from the royal wardrobe. Thus encouraged, Artist Jack slapped these accoutrements upon canvas in an attitude "regally erect," which was reported to "make the King seem unusually tall and commanding." Pleased, His Majesty inspected it last week, deigned...
Further encouraged, Artist Jack dared to paint in "an almost melancholy likeness, whereas His Majesty is usually painted with a smiling expression...