Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1116: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (Augustus Saint-Gaudens) , 1943.1116,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 13, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229877. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
