Life Mask and Hands of Abraham Lincoln
1886
9 3/4 x 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (24.8 x 20.6 x 14.3 cm)
Leonard Wells Volk
United States
(Wellstown (now Wells), NY, 1828 - 1895, Osceola, WI)
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas H. and Marion J. Hawks, by exchange
Accession Number:
1998.37.1-2a-b
Location: Currently on view
Provenance
James Graham & Sons, New York (dealer); purchased by the Gallery in 1998
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Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Jennifer A. Gordon.
Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America.
Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985.
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Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Boston, MA: Massachustts Historical Society, 1991.
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Grant Holcomb, III, ed.
Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
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Article Author: Holcomb, Grant.
Article Title: Lincoln Bronzes are Major Acquisition.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
MAGazine.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
Issue Date: January-February 1999.
Page Number: 5
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Memorial Art Gallery.
ARTiculate.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
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Article Author: Holcomb, Grant.
Article Title: Leonard Wells Volk: Life Mask and Hands of Abraham Lincoln.
Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction.
Marjorie B. Searl, ed.
Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.
Page Number: 67-69
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Article Author: Boessl, Henry.
Article Title: Untitled.
Article Scope: Poetry.
Community Voices in the Gallery: a Collection of Writings by Members of our Community Inspired by Works of Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2009.
Page Number: 70
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3D view
3D view of life mask copied from a bronze at the Smithsonian Institution
Seeing America
Chapter on Leonard Wells Volk's Life Mask and Hands of Abraham Lincoln, written by Gallery Director Grant Holcomb.
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