Artist Thomas Hipschen: The man behind your money
Correction:
While BEP manufactures banknotes, the Federal Reserve is the entity that releases them and has delayed the release of the new $100 bill.
In the 1700s Joseph Siffred Duplessis painted a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. In the early 1990s, Arlington's Thomas Hipschen engraved that portrait, now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, on a steel plate.
- The new $100 bill with Hipschen’s engraving reproduced on it. (Photo: TBD Staff)
In the mid 1990s, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reproduced that hand engraving for printing on the $100 bill. The Federal Reserve will release a new $100 bill with Hipschen’s engraving reproduced on it once again.
While Hipschen retired from BEP in 2006 amidst a transition to more digital engraving, he has yet to put down his engraving tools. TBD's Sara Kenigsberg got a look at his home studio to better understand his craft.
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