id: 114593 accession number: 1934.208 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.208 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:25.491000 Medal Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of General Motors , 1933. Norman Bel Geddes (American, 1893–1958). Bronze with silver patina; diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of General Motors Corporation 1934.208 © The Edith Luytens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, Inc. title: Medal Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of General Motors title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Gift of General Motors Corporation copyright: © The Edith Luytens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, Inc. --- culture: America, 20th century technique: bronze with silver patina department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Norman Bel Geddes (American, 1893–1958) - artist --- measurements: Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: obverse - upper right: "COMMEMORATING THE TWENTYFIFTH"; lower left: "ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL MOTORS"; upper left: "1908"; lower right: "1933." reverse - upper left: "TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF"; lower right: "MOTOR TRANSPORTATION." Directly below image: "Norman Bel Geddes © 1933." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art; "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s." Sept. 30, 2017-Jan. 14, 2018.', 'opening_date': '2017-09-30T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. page number: Reproduced & Mentioned: fig. 261, p. 210 url: --- IMAGES