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Leo Junker

Leo Helmholz Junker (1880 - 1972) was active/lived in New York, Illinois.  Leo Junker is known for Landscape-snowscene, etcher.

The following, submitted December 2004, is from Robert M. Jacobson, MD*. It is "some information regarding the artist and particularly how he was instrumental in the insignia of the largest pediatric organization on the planet, the American Academy of Pediatrics".

Up on East 9 in the Mayo Building, in the heart of our pediatric referral practice, is a replica of the brightly glazed, blue-and-white Della Robbia sculptured plaque of a swaddled infant. Its presence on the wall has a lot to do with own our history as a department as well as the history of American Pediatrics.

The AAP News published this week as part of its celebration of its coming sixty-fifth anniversary had an article entitled "Symbolic change: Academy's Della Robbia insignia reflects changes."

That article relates how the inspiration for the AAP insignia formed from the work of the sculptor Andrea Della Robbia who in the 15th century created ten plaques of swaddled infants that decorate the externa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3573 characters.]  Artist bio

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