Pennypacker Memorial for Philadelphia's Logan Circle. Pennypacker had been the youngest Union general in the American Civil War. Grafly's concept was to depict Pennypacker as a bare-chested Roman general astride a chariot-like cannon, and flanked by tigers. Grafly died in 1929, and Laessle completed the memorial, based on Grafly's designs, in 1934. From 1919 until 1939, Laessle was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy. He retired due to a heart condition. In 1951, Laessle won the J. Sanford Saltus Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Art of the Medal from the American Numismatic Society. Among the medals he designed and sculpted during his long career was the Gold Medal of Award for the Sesquicentennial International Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1926. He sculpted America-Abundance, the tenth issue of the Society of Medalists in 1934. In 1927 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1932. Personal life Laessle and his wife Mary had two sons, Dr. Albert Middleton Laessle and Paul Laessle (1908–1988), who was also an artist. Mary died of a stroke in 1944. He later married Albertine C. De Bempt. Death Laessle died in his home in Miami, Florida, on September 4, 1954. His papers are held at the Archives of American Art. References 1877 births 1954 deaths Drexel University alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts faculty Sculptors from Pennsylvania 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors National Sculpture Society members Students of Thomas Eakins Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters