The Making of Mocha: Benton Jones Discusses the Casting Process

Director of Art, Benton Jones, offers an in-depth discussion on the intricate process behind the posthumous bronze casting of Mocha - the Cape Cod Museum of Art's newest addition to the Yasuna Deny Sculpture Garden.

Mocha (A young goat taking its first steps), was created by artist by Ralph J. Menconi in 1937. A posthumous bronze casting of Mocha was recently gifted to the Museum by the Marjorie Menconi Trust, Ralph J. Menconi ll, Trustee.  

One of the artist's earliest works by prominent American sculptor Ralph J. Menconi, Mocha was modeled in the summer of 1937 while Ralph Menconi was a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts.  His career spanned five decades, including his apprenticeship in New York with his father Raffaello E. Menconi, a widely esteemed architectural sculptor.  "Mocha" was part of a retrospective exhibition of Ralph Menconi's medallic and statuary works at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2001. Ralph J Menconi work can be seen all over the United…