Donald Paul Tompkins
"Janis Joplin" Commemorative Medal

"Janis Joplin" Commemorative Medal

© Estate of Don Tompkins

"Janis Joplin" Commemorative Medal
"Janis Joplin" Commemorative Medal
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • "Janis Joplin" Commemorative Medal
  • from the Commemorative Medals series
Date1970
PlaceUnited States
MediumSterling silver, brass, and cultured pearl
DimensionsOverall: 9 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 3/4 in. (24.8 × 10.8 × 1.9 cm)
Overall (pendant): 2 1/4 × 3 5/8 × 3/4 in. (5.7 × 9.2 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineHelen Williams Drutt Collection, gift of Helen Williams Drutt English
Object number2006.657
Not on view

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ProvenanceMerrily Tompkins; purchased by Helen Williams Drutt English, Philadelphia, 2006; given to MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"Commemorative Medals: The Politics of History in Honor of the National Republican and Democratic Presidential Conventions," Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, June 17–August 19, 2000.

"Donald Paul Tompkins," Manolides Gallery, Seattle.

"Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 30, 2007–January 27, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, March 14–July 6, 2008; Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, August 16, 2008–January 4, 2009; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, June 27–September 13, 2009.

"Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography," Museum of Arts and Design, New York, May 13–September 14, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Etched on verso lower right: "Don Tompkins / 1976"

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