Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Chester French · Modeled 1912, cast after 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- Philip D. Sang (1902–1975), Chicago, by early 1940s; by descent to Elsie O. Sang (Mrs. Philip D. Sang, 1906–1997), Chicago, 1975; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- “Sculptor’s Pride in Art Institute,” <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, Feb. 6, 1985, Section 8, 1 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 329–31, cat. 174 (ill.).
- Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001), 9 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102836">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4102836</a>.
- Sofia Ortega-Guerrero, “Americas in the Making,” in “In the Galleries,” ed. Elizabeth McGoey and Sara Picard, <em>Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art</em> 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026), <a href="https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042">https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042</a>.
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