1943.1116: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1116

People

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American (Dublin, Ireland 1848 - 1907 Cornish, NH)

Title

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Other Titles

Former Title: Standing Lincoln
Former Title: Standing Lincoln with Chair

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1912

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229877

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

103.5 x 41.3 x 71.1 cm (40 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 28 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: rear of base: A. H. Saint-Gaudens 1912

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Doll and Richards, Boston, MA], sold ; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York and Lenox, 1912, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1116

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Charles Lewis Hind, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, The International Studio, John Lane Company (New York, NY, 1908), p. 303
• Homer Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, adapted from a lecture given by his son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Saint-Gaudens Memorial (Cornish, NH, 1927), pp. 32-35, ill. p. 34
• Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 384
• Louise Hall Tharp, Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1969), p. 208
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 110, ill.
• John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, and London, 1982), p. 160
• Thayer Tolles, "'Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)': A Bronze Statuette by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2013), vol. 48, pp. 223- 237, p. 231

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

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