华盛顿区设计大赛中提交的各种艺术家模型将被拍卖。

1932 年是乔治·华盛顿诞辰 200 周年，美国造币厂正计划发行一款新的 25 美分银币，正面印有美国第一张肖像，背面印有一只鹰。

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 月份的拍卖会上提供了一系列精选的艺术家模型，这些模型曾提交给 1931 年设计 1932 年 25 分硬币的竞赛。

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.

这些模型展示了不同艺术家如何解读该项目的挑战，将法国雕塑家让-安东尼·乌东 (Jean-Antoine Houdon) 的半身像改造成硬币形式。美术委员会两次宣布劳拉·加丁·弗雷泽 (Laura Gardin Fraser) 获胜，但弗雷泽的设计并未被该竞赛的最终评委、财政部长安德鲁·W·梅隆 (Andrew W. Mellon) 选中。

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 年为纪念华盛顿逝世 200 周年而发行的 5 美元纪念金币又复活了。 2022 年，它被选为华盛顿美国女性流通 25 美元系列的共同正面，再次获得殊荣。

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 门罗主义百年纪念半美元而为钱币学家所熟知。 Beach 为 1932 年 25 美元设计竞赛设计的作品以粗体字体和宽边而著称。

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 为正面提供了石膏设计，这是切斯特海滩工作室系列的一部分。 2009 年，它的售价为 9,200 美元，但 8 月 17 日重新发行时，售价为 3,360 美元。一幅反向展示设计的负性石膏售价为 384 美元，编目员称其为“由于逆行格式，不像上一批提供的正性石膏那么令人印象深刻，但它是设计过程的重要组成部分，罕见且有趣的。”

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.”

价值 9,000 美元的是一副古铜色的正膏药，出自弗拉纳根之手。编目员称这种设计“更具原​​创性”，并评论道，“这里提供的被拒绝的背面的鹰可能会让熟悉该国二战集邮历史的观众想起长盛不衰的赢得战争三美分邮票，其流线型设计，抬起翅膀的鹰。”

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.”

当 2009 年在 Stack's Bowers 展出时，该编目员对这种独特的反面描述如下：“现代主义的鹰，身体短小，头部和颈部几乎相同大小，腿特别大，翅膀巨大，翅膀延伸到传说中。这只鸟牢牢地抓住了带有下弯斧刃的束带，这与所采用的设计完全不同。”

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《美国钱币艺术》一书中对这一设计进行了说明，其中策展人指出，参加竞赛的艺术家在将乌东半身像人性化方面存在问题，并指出，“结果有些冰冷、毫无生气。”

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.

同样归功于约翰·弗拉纳根的还有一对青铜模型，根据其整体风格分配给艺术家，编目员指出，“它们比他采用的设计表现出更多的活力和原创性。”这对青铜器的售价为 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.

会议上提供的其他设计包括温弗雷德·格兰迪（Winfred Grandy）设计的两块正面石膏，其设计相当尴尬，被漆成银色，以更好地模拟最终硬币的外观。格兰迪于1926年进入耶鲁艺术学院学习雕塑，并于1931年毕业。

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.

一对身份不明的雕塑家制作的石膏模型，其中一个的正面是身着便服的华盛顿，另一个的背面是一个英俊的鹰头，售价为 1,560 美元。