{"id":18699,"date":"2023-05-22T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18699"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:36:35","slug":"john-flanagan-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/john-flanagan-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"John Flanagan Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">John Flanagan (American, 1865-1952)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Flanagan, known for his statuary and plaquettes, was a recognized designer of coinage and commemorative medals. Until 1890, he was a studio assistant to famous sculptor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/augustus-saint-gaudens-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Saint-Gaudens<\/a>. He designed the US quarter dollar with the profile of George Washington adapted from a bust by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, a coin in continuous circulation since 1932. Flanagan also designed the official medal of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and the Verdun Medal, a gift to France commemorating the World War I battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-720x900.webp\" alt=\"John Flanagan\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Plaquette, 1911, bronze, cast hollow by unknown foundry, 7 7\/16 x 5 3\/4 in, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.19\n\" class=\"wp-image-18700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-720x900.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-768x961.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-1228x1536.webp 1228w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-502x628.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113-160x200.webp 160w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.5.19-e1684761226113.webp 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Flanagan, <em>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Plaquette<\/em>, 1911, bronze, cast hollow by unknown foundry, 7 7\/16 x 5 3\/4 in, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marqusee, 1996.5.19 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Flanagan (American, 1865-1952) Flanagan, known for his statuary and plaquettes, was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19471,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18699\/revisions\/19471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}