TitleSaint Francis and the Animals
Artist
Laci Anthony de Gerenday
(Hungarian/American, 1911 - 2001)
Date1962
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 15 5/8 × 15 1/8 × 1 1/2 in.
Other (Sculpture): 1 × 11 1/8 in.
Other (Mount board): 15 5/8 × 15 1/8 × 1/2 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 5, 1981
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1981.1003
Label TextDe Gerenday won the Academy's Speyer Prize in the Annual Exhibition of 1947 for an earlier depiction of Saint Francis of Assisi, and again in 1962 for the present work. This work also received the Allied Artists of America's Lindsey Morris Memorial Award in 1969. The sculptor used a similar theme was in a large bronze relief for the Saint Francis of Assisi School in Torrington, Connecticut.
