About This Artwork

Daniel Chester French
American, 1850-1931
Foundry: Roman Bronze Works (New York, N.Y.)
American, early 20th century

Abraham Lincoln, modeled 1912 (cast after 1912)

Bronze
95.2 cm (37 1/2 in.)
Inscribed, top of base at left: "Daniel C. French Sc./1912"
Foundry marks on back of base at right: "Roman Bronze Works N.Y."
Gift of Mrs. Philip D. Sang in memory of Philip D. Sang, 1984.1130

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

“Sculptor’s Pride in Art Institute,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985, Section 8, p. 1 (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 329-31, no. 174.

Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), p. 9 (ill.).

Ownership History

Philip D. Sang, Chicago, by early 1940s; by descent to Mrs. Philip D. Sang, Chicago, 1975; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.