華盛頓區設計大賽中提交的各種藝術家模型將被拍賣。

1932 年是喬治華盛頓誕辰 200 週年，美國鑄幣廠正計劃發行一款新的 25 美分銀幣，正面印有美國第一張肖像，背面印有一隻鷹。

A selection of various artist’s models that were submitted to the 1931 competition to design the 1932 quarter dollar were offered by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in its August auctions.

Stack's Bowers Galleries 在 8 月的拍賣會上提供了一系列精選的藝術家模型，這些模型曾提交給 1931 年設計 1932 年 25 分硬幣的競賽。

The models show how different artists interpreted the project’s challenge to adapt a bust by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon into coin form. The Commission of Fine Arts twice declared Laura Gardin Fraser the winner, but Fraser’s design was not chosen by that contest’s final judge, Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon.

這些模型展示了不同藝術家如何解讀該計畫的挑戰，將法國雕塑家讓-安東尼·烏東 (Jean-Antoine Houdon) 的半身像改造成硬幣形式。美術委員會兩次宣布勞拉·加丁·弗雷澤(Laura Gardin Fraser) 獲勝，但弗雷澤的設計並未被該競賽的最終評委、財政部長安德魯·W·梅隆(Andrew W. Mellon)選中。

However, it was revived for the $5 commemorative gold coin issued in 1999 to honor the bicentennial of Washington’s death. It was again honored when chosen in 2022 for use as the common obverse for the Washington, American Women circulating quarter dollar series.

然而，1999 年為紀念華盛頓逝世 200 週年而發行的 5 美元紀念金幣又復活了。 2022 年，它被選為華盛頓美國女性流通 25 美元系列的共同正面，再次獲得殊榮。

Chester Beach is well-known to numismatists for his 1923-S Monroe Doctrine Centennial commemorative half dollar. Beach’s design for the 1932 quarter dollar design competition is distinguished with bold lettering and a wide rim.

切斯特比奇因其 1923 年 S 門羅主義百年紀念半美元而為錢幣學家所熟知。 Beach 為 1932 年 25 美元設計競賽設計的作品以粗體字體和寬邊而聞名。

Stack’s Bowers offered a plaster design for the obverse that was part of Chester Beach’s studio collection. It realized $9,200 in 2009, but its Aug. 17 reoffering saw it sell for $3,360. A negative plaster, showing the design in reverse, sold for $384, with the cataloger calling it, “Not as impressive as the positive plaster offered in the previous lot due to the retrograde format, but an important part of the design process, rare and interesting.”

Stack's Bowers 為正面提供了石膏設計，這是切斯特海灘工作室系列的一部分。 2009 年，它的售價為 9,200 美元，但 8 月 17 日重新發行時，售價為 3,360 美元。一幅反向展示設計的負性石膏售價為384 美元，編目員稱其為“由於逆行格式，不像上一批提供的正性石膏那麼令人印象深刻，但它是設計過程的重要組成部分，罕見且有趣的。

Realizing $9,000 was a pair of positive plasters, bronzed, attributed to Flanagan. The cataloger called this design, “vastly more original,” commenting, “The eagle of the rejected reverse offered here may remind viewers familiar with the country’s World War II philatelic history of the long-lived Win the War three-cent stamp with its streamlined, raised-wing eagle.”

價值 9,000 美元的是一副古銅色的正膏藥，出自弗拉納根之手。編目員稱這種設計“更具原創性”，並評論道，“這裡提供的被拒絕的背面的鷹可能會讓熟悉該國二戰集郵歷史的觀眾想起長盛不衰的贏得戰爭三美分郵票，其流線型設計，抬起翅膀的鷹。

When offered at Stack’s Bowers in 2009, that cataloger described the distinctive reverse as follows: “modernistic eagle with a short body, pronounced head and neck nearly the same size and exceptionally large legs between enormous raised wings extending through the legend. The bird firmly grasps fasces complete with down-turned axe blade wholly unlike that on the adopted design.”

當2009 年在Stack's Bowers 展出時，該編目員對這種獨特的反面描述如下：「現代主義的鷹，身體短小，頭部和頸部幾乎相同大小，腿特別大，翅膀巨大，翅膀延伸到傳說中。這隻鳥牢牢地抓住了帶有下彎斧刃的束帶，這與所採用的設計完全不同。

The design is illustrated in Cornelius Vermeule’s book Numismatic Art in America where the curator observed that the artists in the competition had issues in humanizing the Houdon bust, noting, “There is something cold and lifeless about the results.”

Cornelius Vermeule 的《美國錢幣藝術》一書中對這一設計進行了說明，其中策展人指出，參加競賽的藝術家在將烏東半身像人性化方面存在問題，並指出，「結果有些冰冷、毫無生氣。

Also attributed to John Flanagan were a pair of bronze models, assigned to the artist based on their overall style, with the cataloger noting that, “they show more vitality and originality than his adopted design.” The pair of attributed bronzes sold for $6,600.

同樣歸功於約翰·弗拉納根的還有一對青銅模型，根據其整體風格分配給藝術家，編目員指出，“它們比他採用的設計表現出更多的活力和原創性。”這對青銅器的售價為 6,600 美元。

Other designs offered in the session included two positive plasters by Winfred Grandy with a rather awkward design that were painted silver, to better approximate how the resulting coin might look. Grandy had entered Yale Art School in 1926, studying sculpture, and graduated in 1931.

會議上提供的其他設計包括溫弗雷德·格蘭迪（Winfred Grandy）設計的兩塊正面石膏，其設計相當尷尬，被漆成銀色，以更好地模擬最終硬幣的外觀。格蘭迪於1926年進入耶魯藝術學院學習雕塑，並於1931年畢業。

A pair of plaster models by an unidentified sculptor, one featuring Washington in civil dress on one, and the other, for the reverse, a handsome eagle’s head, sold for $1,560.

一對身份不明的雕塑家製作的石膏模型，其中一個的正面是身著便服的華盛頓，另一個的背面是一個英俊的鷹頭，售價為 1,560 美元。