Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial) - Wikipedia
Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Located in the Lincoln Memorial (constructed 1914–1922) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the statue
Lincoln Statue - Lincoln Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
2021年3月29日 · Lying between the north and south chambers is the central hall containing the solitary figure of Lincoln sitting in contemplation. The statue was carved by the Piccirilli brothers under the supervision of the sculptor, Daniel Chester French, and took four years to complete.
Lincoln Memorial: Statue of Lincoln - U.S. National Park Service
2021年4月4日 · Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is depicted by renowned American sculptor Daniel Chester French. Lincoln is seated with the American flag draped behind him, and of bundles of rods under each arm representing the union of the states.
Lincoln Memorial — Chesterwood
By March of 1867, Congress incorporated the Lincoln Monument Association to build a memorial to the slain 16th President. In 1914, as part of a large rehabilitation of the Mall in Washington, D.C., they selected Daniel Chester French to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Memorial that Henry Bacon had been commissioned to design.
Daniel Chester French - Wikipedia
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Chester French - U.S. National Park Service
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor who molded popular understanding of American history and identity in a way few others in the arts have. He is best known for sculpting the Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts and marble statue of Abraham Lincoln within the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
The Man Who Sculpted Our Image of Abraham Lincoln
On May 30th, 1922, fifty-seven years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, over 35,000 people gathered at the western end of the National Mall in Washington D.C. to see him once again. Sitting within the grand, neoclassical Lincoln Memorial building designed by architect Henry Bacon, the statue of the beloved president seemed to convey to the
Lincoln Memorial - Wikipedia
The first public memorial to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination in Ford’s Theatre.
Abraham Lincoln Statue in Lincoln Memorial
Probably the most recognizable of all Lincoln statues, this 19-foot marble work dominates the famous Lincoln Memorial. Created by Daniel Chester French, the leading American sculptor of the day, it was dedicated on May 30, 1922 when French was 72 years old.
Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and …
2009年1月16日 · The installation features the six-foot-high plaster final model of the most renowned Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), as designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, and the original wood model of the Lincoln Memorial by American architect Henry Bacon (1866–1924).