Michael Lantz

[2][3] In 1938, while working as an instructor for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), he won a competition to create two statues for the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington, D.C. 247 artists entered the anonymous competition organized by the Department of the Treasury.

[4] The models that Lantz submitted for the competition are now in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[4] He also designed commemorative and historical medals and seals, including one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

In 1951 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1954.

[6] The National Sculpture Society awards the Walter and Michael Lantz Prize on an annual basis.