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Title: Statues of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Memorial
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Presidents Marble sculpture, American Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Large-scale sculpture
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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th such ease andrepose in its chair, seems to have been cutfrom one mighty block of marble, by onepair of hands. So uniform is the work, andwith such skill and sympathy is each line andcurve finished, that it gives the impression ofbeing the single creation of a single artist.Incredibly, the titanic Lincoln is in twentypieces, and is the product of twenty-sevenmen who, for nearly two years, worked to-gether as one. figure that grew into final form as the Manof the Ages. From Georgia wrere brought tons of herfinest and most beautiful marble. Therewere twenty-eight blocks, weighing fromfive to forty tons each, so there were 427 tonsin all. From this great pile experts selectedtwenty blocks. It was impossible for one man to cut themighty figure. Mr. French engaged, for thecutting, the six Piccirilli brothers of NewYork, with their expert marble workers. ThePiccirilli brothers had come to this countryfrom Italy, and each was an artist, capable ofcreating and then executing, rare and beau-
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llluslration from the Author The world-famous statue by Daniel Chester French as it faces the_entrancedoor of the Lincoln Memorial The apartment in which the statue isplaced is so large and so well proportionedthat few realize the immensity of the figureseated so easily in its mighty curule chair.The hall is seventy feet long, sixty wide, andsixty in height. The statue does not seem toolarge, but if the seated figure could standerect, it would be close to thirty-eight feettall. Frenchs first model of the Lincoln statuewas a clay creation less than three feet inheight. From this he produced a workingmodel five feet high. It was this second tiful work in marble. Each brother was alsoa part of one of the most amazing teamsknown to the art world. For these brotherscould work together as one man—somethingso rare among sculptors as to be practicallyunknown. Their teamworK was so perfectthat not even a great sculptor can detectwhere the work of one brother ends and thework of another begin

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