The Lincoln Penny and the VDB Litho: An Interview with Illustrator Joel Iskowitz

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 78, in which you will hear a tale - all true - about time, space, the vision of an artist 100 years ago, the vision of another artist now ... a tale of two Presidents, of the power of the penny to bring us the past and make it come alive.   I interview Joel Iskowitz, whose depictions appear on the back of American coins and on UK stamps, on illustrations for NASA and the Boyscouts ... We talk about the capacity of a coin to capture the past and bring it to millions, how Victor David Brenner persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to commission a new Lincoln Penny back at the beginning of the 20th century, and how Joel envisioned this scene and rescued it from the oblivion of the past in a brand new lithograph.   This interview will be of special interest to historians, artists, coin collectors, and all students of communication and technology, and how this affects our psyches and our world...

Links:

1. Joel Iskowitz's web page and Wikipedia page.


2. Meet Joel in person on 13 Aug 2010 at the World's Fair of Money in Boston!


3. Joel's work at Signature Art Medals online.


4. More from Joel online at The Mountain Studio.

Lithograph by Iskowitz depicting Theodore Roosevelt sitting for Victor David Brenner for the Panama Canal Service Medal at Sagamore Hill. Courtesy Signature Art Medals.

thanks to Joel Iskowitz for illustrating the six above covers

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