Lincoln Abraham Art!

From the Facebook page of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, a creative fourth-grade student from Carbondale, Illinois, used an unusual medium – plastic packing wrap and tape – to create what looks to be a life-size sculpture of a seated Lincoln. You can view her sculpture “Lincoln at the Telegraph Office” here: https://goo.gl/E89keE. Scrolling from there, you can see two other views, including one of Lincoln wearing his stovepipe hat, also formed from plastic wrap.
 
I don't know the name of the artist.


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If I am not mistaking.....this painting entitled "To Save A Nation", was painted by Larry Winborg. Winborg is an native of Idaho born in 1942.
 

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A rarely seen painting of a wounded Lincoln being carried from Ford's Theatre to the Petersen House is undergoing restoration. By Carl Bersch, a German immigrant painter, it was done in 1865 and is believed to be the only painting depicting Lincoln's assassination by an eyewitness to the tragedy:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...6460919_story.html?postshare=4341444140536018

An update on the restoration: Ford's Theatre hopes to have Carl Bersch's painting on display in time for the 151st anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, April 14, 2016.
 
Abe would have been soooo embarrassed!

In the courtyard of the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, stands Clyde DuVernet Hunt's 1935 bronze, "The American Spirit."
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It depicts Lincoln as "Charity," with paternal hands resting on the heads of "Faith" (a kneeling, half-clad young woman), and "Hope" ( a nude young boy gazing adoringly up at the Great Man).

One can only guess what comical, self-deprecating story that bizarre bit of iconography would "remind" Lincoln of -- if it didn't leave him uncharacteristically speechless.

See also:
http://weirdandwonderfulamerica.com/a-very-weird-lincoln-in-bennington-vermont/

I wonder how much of the current 'flap'of Lincoln-hatred is actually a reaction against this kind of idolatry. Lincoln has been, and often still is set upon such a high pedestal of perfection, his virtues so unstintingly idolized and exaggerated, that it makes some people, in revulsion, blind to his true worth, and compulsively suspicious of him and all his actions.
 
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Abe would have been soooo embarrassed!

In the courtyard of the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, stands Clyde DuVernet Hunt's 1935 bronze, "The American Spirit."
It depicts Lincoln as "Charity," with paternal hands resting on the heads of "Faith" (a kneeling, half-clad young woman), and "Hope" ( a nude young boy gazing adoringly up at the Great Man).

One can only guess what comical, self-deprecating story that bit of iconography would "remind" Lincoln of -- if it didn't leave him uncharacteristically speechless.

I wonder how much of the current 'flap'of Lincoln-hatred is actually a reaction against this kind of idolatry. Lincoln has been, and often still is set upon such a high pedestal of perfection, his virtues so unstintingly idolized and exaggerated, that it makes some people, in revulsion, blind to his true worth, and compulsively suspicious of him and all his actions.
Uhhmmm, yeah... quite embarrrassing situation for old Abe... :happy:
 
It's really very well executed -- the Lincoln portrait is quite good. When I first saw it, I thought the "submissive" figures were meant to represent freed slaves. That would have simply been offensive -- but the reality of it is actually more disturbing. The sculptor was born in Scotland in 1861, studied in France, and worked mostly in Vermont. He reportedly idolized, and idealized Lincoln. The statue was exhibited at the 1939 NY World's Fair, and when Hunt died in the early '40s, his family donated it to the museum.
 
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