Definizione

• Rejected Design.  A medallic design prepared by an artist that for any reason may be unacceptable for final publication; it may be in the form of sketches, clay or plaster models. Rejected designs are most often the early stages of a work which an artist later changes and completes for ultimate acceptance. Also rejected designs likely to be encountered are those of design competitions that were not the winning entry; even the most successful artist will have several of these around his studio if he enters any number of such contests. Infrequently rejected designs which have proceeded as far as models and which have redeeming artistic merit, sometimes become stock designs at a later time. Medallist Ralph J. Menconi had the habit of burying models he considered unacceptable in the back yard of his home-studio in Pleasantville New York; the subsequent owner of the property later unearthed several of these rejected plaster models.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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