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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
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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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