Marika Somogyi, Sculptor

Collection

Marika Somogyi, Sculptor

COLLECTION

Welcome to our collection of fine art medals and medallions.These works are available in limited edition, as listed, in

cast, cold cast, or struck process.

If you are interested in ordering selections from the collection, please contact us at marikasomogyi.com

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MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS

1. Agatha Christie * Personal Work Bronze, Leather, Steel 170 mm x 100 mm

2. Leonard Berstein (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Struck Sterling Silver or Bronze 50 mm x 50 mm

3. Benjamin Britten (Obverse/Reverse) * British Museum, London, UK Bronze 60 mm x 80 mm

4. Jimmy Carter (Obverse/Reverse) Habitat for Humanity, Americus, GA Bronze 100 mm

5. Marc Chagall (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Sterling Silver or Bronze 55 mm x 50 mm

6. Charlie Chaplin (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Sterling Silver or Bronze 50 mm

7. Benny Goodman (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Struck Sterling Silver or Bronze 50 mm x 50 mm

8. Dream of Old Danube * Personal Work Bronze, Sterling Silver 90 mm

9. FIDEM (Obverse/Reverse) * Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art Bronze 80 mm * available for purchase

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MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS

10. Forest at Dawn * Personal Work Bronze, Gold Leaf 80 mm x 90 mm

11. Goethe * Personal Work Bronze 120 mm x 110 mm

12. Gossip * Personal Work Bronze 130 mm

13. Alfred Hitchcock * Personal Work Bronze 100 mm x 90 mm

14. Homage to My Mother No. 1 * Personal Work Bronze 100 mm x 120 mm

15. Homage to My Mother No. 2 * Personal Work Bronze 70 mm x 100 mm

16. Homo Faber * Personal Work Bronze, Brass 110 mm x 90 mm

17. Leda * Personal Work Bronze 110 mm

18. Statue of Liberty (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Bronze 110 mm * available for purchase

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MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS

19. In Memory of 9-11 * Personal Work Bronze 110 mm

20. Pieta of Mother Earth * Personal Work Bronze 110 mm

21. Placido Domingo Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles, CA Bronze 100 mm

22. Edgar Allen Poe * Personal Work Bronze, 24K Gold Leaf 130 mm x 110 mm

23. Eleanor Roosevelt * Personal Work Bronze 100 mm

24. Oskar Schindler (Obverse/Reverse) * Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA Bronze 100 mm

25. Sherlock Holmes (Obverse/Reverse) * Personal Work Sterling Silver or Bronze 60 mm x 40 mm

26. Song of the Immigrant * Personal Work Bronze, 24K Gold Leaf 90 mm x 80 mm

27. Susanna * Personal Work Cold Cast Bronze 130 mm * available for purchase

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MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS

28. Vanitas (Obverse/Reverse) * Personal Work Struck Bronze 60 mm x 70 mm

29. Raul Wallenberg (Obverse/Reverse) * Personal Work Bronze 110 mm

30. Kurt Weill (Obverse/Reverse) * Yale University, New Haven, CT Bronze 100 mm x 100 mm

* available for purchase

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ABOUT MARIKA

Marika Somogyi first trained at Budapest College of Fine Arts before going to the United States. There she studied at the University of California under Robert Arneson and attended a master class with Arnaldo Pomodoro. She was a guest artist and lecturer at the International Medallic Art Workshop at Pennsylvania State University.

Her works are in the permanent collections of the British Museum, Smithsonian Institute and the Art Museums of Berlin, Nuremberg, Dresden, Lisbon, Stockholm and Budapest. Numerous commissions include 1991 and the 2001 Commemorative Silver Dollars. Medals for the San Francisco Opera, the British Art Medal Society, the Society of Medalists, the Magnes Museum and the Brookgreen Gardens, Placido Domingo Award, Maurice Spertus Award. Charlie Chaplin, Sherlock Holmes, Marc Chagall, Eleanor Roosevelt memorial medals.

Marika has exhibited in New York, Colorado Springs, Stockholm, Helsinki, Santa Fe, Hague, London, Budapest, Paris, and Florence.

She is the recipient of several awards including the American Numismatic Association Excellence in American Medallic Art Award.

You can also visit her gallery online at www.marikasomogyi.com

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EDUCATION

Beaux Arts College, Budapest, Hungary

Graduate studies: University of California, at Davis with Robert Arneson

Mills College, Oakland, California: Master class

with Arnaldo Pomodoro

Guest artist and lecturer at the International Medallic Arts Workshop

AWARDS, HONORS

“Excellence in American Medallic Art” American Numismatic Association (1989)

Joel Meisner Award (1998)C.A. Brown Award (1998)

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COMISSIONS Silver Dollar Design Competition Winner for U.S. Treasury Mount Rushmore Commemorative; Silver Dollar Design Competition Winner for U.S. Treasury Capitol Building, Commemorative; Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya Relief, Yale University; Statue of Liberty: bas-relief for permanent collection of the Statue of Liberty National Monument Museum in New York; Spertus Award for the Maurice Spertus Museum, Chicago; Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California bas-reliefs to honor: Raoul Wallenberg, Judah Magnes, Benny Goodman, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein Arthur Miller ; Eleanor Roosevelt centennial bas-relief; J C. Bach-Handel-Scarlatti triple-tercentenary; FIDEM Medals for exhibits in London and Budapest; Ben Gurion centennial medal; Marc Chagall centennial medal; Sherlock Holmes bas-relief; World Trade Center 9/11 memorial medal; Pieta of Mother Earth medal; Kurt Herbert Adler Award medal for the San Francisco Opera Guild; Lew Christensen Award for the San Francisco Ballet Company; Richard LeBlond bas relief for the San Francisco Ballet Company; The Society of Medallists, bas relief; Alfred Hitchcock medal; Brookgreen Garden, South Carolina, bas-relief; Charlie Chaplin commemorative bas-relief; Yosemite bas-relief for its 100th anniversary; Agatha Christie commemorative medal; Jerusalem 3000 year anniversary medal; Oskar Schindler commemorative bas-relief; Alfons Berger memorial medal; Placido Domingo award medal for Los Angeles Opera; Benjamin Britten for British Art Medal Society; Jussi Björling Society Medal; Jimmy Carter Medal, Habitat for Humanity; MSRI at University of California, Chicago Mercantile Exchange medal; Edgar Allen Poe Commemorative medal

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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

London: British Museum,Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute,Stockholm: Swedish Royal Museum,New York: The Statue of Liberty Museum,New York: Jewish Museum,Chicago: Maurice Spertus Museum,Berkeley: Magnes Museum,Berlin: Staatliche Museum,Nüremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum,Dresden: Staatliche Museum, Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,Budapest: Hungarian Fine Arts Museum.

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EXHIBITIONS

Three Dimensions Gallery, Berkeley, California, 1982 Kertesz Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1996.

Federation Internationale de la Medaille (FIDEM) juried exhibitions at: Florence, Italy (1983), Stockholm, Sweden (1985), Colorado Springs, Colorado (1987), Helsinki, Finland (1990), London, United Kingdom (1992), Budapest, Hungary (1994), Switzerland (1996), Hague, The Netherland (1998), Weimar, Germany (2000), Paris, France (2002), Tampere, Finland (2010).

American Medallic Sculpture Exhibitions: New York (1983), Colorado Springs (1984), San Francisco (1984), Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (1984 and 1985), National Sculpture Gallery, New York, (1985), Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey, (1990 and 1995), Hands Across the Sea. A.N.A. Colorado Springs, Colorado, (2001).

Homage á la Terre Natale, Budapest, Hungary (1982),

Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1988),

Cast Iron Galley, New York (1990),

Kala Institute Resident Artist Exhibit, Berkeley, California (1994),

Pen and Brush Club, New York, (1998,1999, 2000, and 2002), International Medal Biennial, Portugal. (2004), Blue Door Art Association, New York, (2006).

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ARTICLES and REVIEWS

United States

New York Times:January 2, 1983

March 11, 1984October 7, 1984July 28, 1985August 5, 1985

May 11, 1986 July 5, 1987

December 27, 1987 August 13, 1989 December 10, 1989 December 22, 1990Art Medal Society of America (AMSA) Exhibit Catalogue, 1983 Exhibit Catalogue, 2000Hands Across the Sea pages 78-79Brookgreen Gardens Journal (South Carolina): 1989Coin World:

November 3, 1982 December 22, 1982 October 17, 1984 May 22, 1985 July 31, 1985 June 10, 1987 November 18, 1987 September 20, 1989 March 1991 November 1991 October 20, 1992 March 26, 2007

Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia, By: Q. David Bowers. 1991, page: 718

Mint News, The United States Mint February 1, 1991

February 28, 2001Numismatist: 1983 1990

2003San Francisco Examiner, January 14, 1987Beyond two Dimensions, 2005

FIDEM catalogues: Florence 1983

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Stockholm 1985 Colorado Springs 1987 Helsinki 1990 London 1992 Budapest 1994 Neuf Chatel 1996 Hague 1998 Weimar 2000 Paris 2002The Society of Medalists: 1986United Sates Mint,

Mount Rushmore Commemorative Silver Dollar, 1991In the Round, 1992The New Medal, 1994National Sculpture Society, 1985Jussi Bjorling Society, 2000Monumental Miniatures, 2005In Fitting Memory, by Sybil Milton, 1991.

France

Medailles 1993 page 561995 pages 17, 30

Germany

Europaische Medaillenkunst von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, By: Wolfgang Steguweit, Berlin Art Museum 1996, pages: 162-164Buhne Dresden, April 27, 2003Dresdener Kunsblatter, 2003Dresdner Morgenpost, April 26, 2003Germanisches National Museum, 1998Sachsische Zeitung, April 23, 2003

Hungary

Hommage a la Terre Natale, Budapest, 1983Uj Kelet, April, 1994.

Italy

Soldi Numismatica, 1985Medaglia, Page 155. Milan, 1986

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Portugal

International Biennial, 2003

Sweden

Stjarn Glans. Myntkabinettet, Stockholm, 2001

United Kingdom

The Medal, The British Art Medal Trust Spring 1988 Autumn, 1989 Spring, 1990 Autumn, 1990 Spring, 1992 Autumn, 1995 Autumn, 1997 Autumn, 1999 Autumn, 2004.

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