Miley Tucker Frost
Miley Tucker Frost is an American artist who created original sculpture by private, corporate, and institutional commission. The original models were sculpted in her studio to actual scale in clay or wax and then cast in metal by the foundry lost-wax method.
Miley Tucker Frost is represented in major public, institutional, and international collections, including the White House Oval Office (Reagan Administration, two terms), the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Library of Congress, the George W. Bush Presidential Library, the University of Texas at Austin, the City of Leipzig, Germany, and multiple foreign embassies in the United States.
Miley Tucker Frost has been commissioned by the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Western Currency Facility), the United States Navy League, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Corporate and institutional commissions include Trammell Crow Company, Rosewood Corporation, Lincoln Property Company, Hyatt Hotels, Century City Plaza Hotel, John Brown University, the University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, and the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., as well as numerous private collectors.
Miley Tucker Frost is the artist most noted for creating the original Type I reverse design of the U.S. Treasury’s Family of Eagles for the American Eagle Gold Bullion coin, minted from 1986 through 2021. Her design was mandated by a bipartisan Act of Congress (Public Law 99-185, December 17, 1985), which passed unanimously in both chambers of Congress.
“Together a New Beginning” Reagan Presidential Museum Simi Valley, California” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“Moving Forward Together,” Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, DC” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“SMU Mustangs””. US Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“George W. Bush Presidential Library Presidential Seal Sculpture, Dallas, Texas” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025
“Hope” Sculpture” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost — Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“ESA Centennial sculpture on display”. Alcade (January-February 1984): 54. 1984. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
“ESA Centennial sculpture on display”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Texas Ex-tra. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
“Past, Present, Future: A Centennial Tribute”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“US-Künstlerin schenkt Leipzig ein Wendedenkmal”. Leipziger Volkszeitung. October 8, 2009. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
“US-Künstlerin schenkt Leipzig ein Wendedenkmal”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“The Eagle” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Office of Public Affairs, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“US Treasury Shield U. S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing-Western Facility”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“U.S. Navy League Headquarters Sculpture” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“FBI Seal” — FBI Virginia Headquarters, Haymarket, VA” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Seal of the President” (to accompany Presidential letter collection) formerly at the San Jacinto Tower, Dallas, Texas (this sculpture was acquired by the George W. Bush Presidential Library” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“Founders’ View,” The Crescent, Dallas, Texas” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
“Pair of Bulls, Remington Hotel (Rosewood Corporation) Houston, Texas” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Palling Up,” Rosewood Mansion at Turtle Creek, Dallas, Texas” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
“Peace Through Strength” — Drug Enforcement Agency Headquarters” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Dallas Sesquicentennial Monument Turtle Creek at Lincoln Center, Dallas, Texas” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
“Herons Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay, Cambridge, MD”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Pair of Griffins Century City Plaza Hotel, Hollywood, California” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
“Gothic Window with Flying Eagle” –” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Hope” Sculpture” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost — Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“ESA Centennial sculpture on display”. Alcade (January-February 1984): 54. 1984. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
“ESA Centennial sculpture on display”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Texas Ex-tra. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
“Past, Present, Future: A Centennial Tribute”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Mustangs — SMU Campus”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
“Celtic Cross, Chapel of the Presidents, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Retrieved 27 October 2025
“US Strikes Gold Bullion Coin”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Coin World. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
Valencia, Scott. “The History of the American Eagle Gold Coin”. USMint.gov. US Mint. Retrieved 21 August 2025
“Who Designed the Gold American Eagle Coin?””. USMoneyReserve.com. 3 May 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
Martin, Erik. “”After 20 years, collectors still eager for American Eagles”” (PDF). Miley Tucker Frost Documents. Coin Values. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
Millman, Everett. “Best Gold Coins To Buy in 2025: Top 10 List”. www.gainesvillecoins.com. Gainesville Coins. Retrieved 25 October 2025