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Commemorating Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight, 1927
1931 · Bronze and gold leaf
Diam. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frederick William MacMonnies was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly accomplished painter and portraitist. He was born in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New York City.
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