page_title: Lyndall Bass
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Lyndall Bass / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: United States One Cent Reverse
context_page_description: Lyndall Bass is an American realist painter and teacher who primarily paints still lifes, flower paintings and symbolist figure paintings. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the designer of the 2010 penny known as the Union Shield Penny.
context_section_description: Bass has received numerous awards including a National Society of Arts and Letters award, a Franklin Mint Award of Excellence and a First Purchase Award in the 1983 exhibition "Realism Today" from the Evansville Museum. 
   She is the recipient of a 2004 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grant for working painters. In 1980 she received a National Society of Arts and Letters award in an Indiana state art competition. Her most recent award is from the United States Mint for her design of the 2010 permanent Lincoln cent reverse design, known as the “Shield Cent”. Bass' design was sculpted on the reverse by staff sculptor Joseph Menna and both of their initials appear on the reverse of the coin under each side of the scroll bearing the words "ONE CENT".
caption: The reverse of the 2010 redesign of the Lincoln penny
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