Sculpturing, Medals And Reliefs, Open

Overall, 144 participants from 16 countries with 300 exhibits participated in the sculpture competition. There were two groups of entries: Reliefs and Medals and Sculptors Works (free-standing figures). The jury for sculpture consisted of the people Haig Patigian (1876-1950), San Francisco; Lloyd Rollins (1890-1970), San Francisco; Henry Hering (1874-1949), New York; and Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta (1887-1948), Hollywood; all well-known sculptors and art historians in the United States. Also on the jury was the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles (1875-1955).

The gold medal was presented to Polish medalist Józef Klukowski for his Sport Sculpture II. He also won a silver medal for Soccer player at the 1936 Art Competitions in Berlin. In 1944 he was killed during transport between concentration camps, when he was being moved from Mauthausen to Bergen-Belsen. His badge was presented to the champion Polish ski jumper Stanisław Marusarz the same year, whose father preserved it after World War II. At an exhibition at the Museum of Sport and Tourism at Warszawa in 2000-01 the badge was re-discovered, as Marusarz’ trophies were displayed.

US silver medal winner Frederick MacMonnies ( Lindbergh Medal ) later married Alice Jones, sister of tennis players Marion and Georgina Jones who took part in the 1900 Paris Games.

The bronze medal was won by Canadian Tait McKenzie, the only art Olympian to take part in five Olympic Games 1912-48. His Shield of the Athletes was only one of 44 works he submitted to the Los Angeles Art Competitions. He was a Canadian-born American, who after World War I specialized in the care and rehabilitation of severely wounded soldiers, and earned honors in the Canadian and American Scout Movement. During his medical studies at McGill University in Montréal, McKenzie was known as a versatile athlete.