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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 24, June 14, 2020, Article 32

BEAUX-ARTS INSTITUTE OF DESIGN MEDAL

Bob Rhue writes:

"Here's a medal from the Herzog estate I bought that I absolutely love. (it's silver plated bronze)"

Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Medal obverse Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Medal reverse

Bob also included a link to a Wikipedia article with more information on the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Here's an excerpt. -Editor

The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID) was an art and architectural school at 304 East 44th Street in Turtle Bay, Manhattan, in New York City. It was founded in 1916 by Lloyd Warren for the training of American architects, sculptors and mural painters consistent with the educational agenda of the French École des Beaux-Arts.

BAID grew out of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, a formal club of American architects who had attended the Parisian school.

From its beginning in 1894, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects had been interested in improving architectural education in the U.S.. It took on the task of developing standard architectural "programmes" for design problems to be given as assignments in architecture schools and in independent ateliers. The intent was to raise performance standards, but the effect also was to standardize the way architecture was taught all across the United States. By 1900, most American architecture schools and many independent ateliers were participating. By 1916 the burden of providing problem statements and jurying the work from an increasing number of schools and ateliers exceeded the capacity of the Society, so it established BAID to carry on this work.

Among sculpture professionals, the foundation of BAID ensured a supply of competent decorative sculptors, and allowed the members of the National Sculpture Society to position themselves as fine artists in comparison.

The school tended to be populated by students who were either immigrants or first generation Americans. They often came from working-class backgrounds and their training was towards getting a union job in the building trades, rather than becoming a fine arts sculptor. Many of these students also attended the Art Students League of New York.

To read the complete Wikipedia article, see:
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_Institute_of_Design)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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