Abraham Lincoln
ca. 1891
33 x 12 x 12 in. (83.8 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Leonard Wells Volk
United States
(Wellstown (now Wells), NY, 1828 - 1895, Osceola, WI)
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Credit Line:
Maurice R. and Maxine B. Forman Fund
Accession Number:
2008.29
Location: Not currently on view
Leonard Wells Volk made this statuette as a model for the over-nine-foot sculpture in his Rochester Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Washington Square Park. The artist described the sculpture as “heroic in size, some would say colossal.”
Over 100,000 visitors attended the statue’s unveiling on Memorial Day, 1892, including luminaries Frederick Douglass and President Benjamin Harrison.
[Gallery label text, 2012]