At age 18, Menconi began the study of art at the National Academy of Design, New York, later attending Hamilton College.
Menconi was awarded a fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation at Laurelton Hall, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, before beginning military service in northern Africa and Europe in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.
He was honored in 1955 with membership in the Century Association, a group founded in New York in 1847 to recognize persons with accomplishments in the arts and letters.
The bronze of the subject entered the collection of Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, where it remains to this day.
His wood-carved reliefs of William Green and Samuel Gompers are in the main lobby of AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC, and his portraits of the seven original Mercury astronauts are displayed near Launch Pad 4 at Cape Kennedy.
At the time of his death at age 57, Menconi was nearing completion of a series of medals celebrating the Great Religions of the World.
Menconi and his family spent many summer vacations on Cape Cod, where his widow Marjorie resided until her death in 2019.
by Clarkson Potter, 1977// The Official Inaugural Medals of the Presidents of the United States, by Richard Dusterberg, 1971, Medallion Press// Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, vol.