Dick Johnson (who writes under the name D. Wayne Johnson) is nearing completion of a work on all the artists, engravers, diesinkers, sculptors and medalists in America. Johnson was the founding editor of Coin World and later the director of research at Medallic Art Co (where he created the firm's archives and cataloged more than 5,000 of the firm's medallic productions).

The work contains data on more than 2,800 American artists in a databank that is the equivalent of 1,200 pages. Each artist's entry contains brief biographical data, a listing of every documented coin and medal the artist created, numismatic citations, appearances in auction sales, museum collections which contain the item, and references to the artist and the items in numismatic and biographical literature.

The author has found a publisher of high quality art reference books, Sound View Press, of Madison, Connecticut, which has set tentative plans for publishing this work later this year.

Johnson writes.