Ne-I-So-Meh—Yuma
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
H.: 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.)
Classification
medal
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
143491
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The sculptor Edward Warren Sawyer, who trained with Hermon Atkins MacNeil at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the mid-1890s, sought out the artist Elbridge Ayer Burbank in Yuma, Arizona. For a short time in 1904, Sawyer worked alongside Burbank, producing two-inch bas-relief medallions in silver and bronze of many of the same subjects as the painter. Although Sawyer’s subject matter and general format were in some respects similar to those in Burbank’s portraits, Sawyer produced ide...