File Name: French_in_studio.jpg
Historical photograph of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), in his Chesterwood studio, holding a modeling tool and standing beside the six foot plaster model (1916) and plaster sketch (1915) of his statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial unveiled in 1922.
Photo by underwood & underwood Studios, NY, 1925. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA.

File Name: Lincoln_Statue_Thompson.jpg
Detail of the six-foot plaster model (1916) of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French (1850–1831), for the Lincoln Memorial unveiled in 1922. Collection of Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA.
Photo by Jerry L. Thompson, 2004. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA.

File Name: DSC9364.jpg
Architectural model for the Lincoln Memorial used by Henry Bacon for the design competition of the memorial held in 1910. The Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, u.S. General Services Administration has lent the model to the National Gallery of Art. Photo by Rob Shelley. © 2009 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

File Name: 2315.jpg
French's Studio at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by Ron Blunt.)

File Name: 2316.jpg
Daniel Chester French in his studio, probably 1920, underwood & underwood Studios. Courtesy of the Forbes Watson papers, 1900-1950, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

File Name: 2317.jpg
Daniel Chester French, Life mask of Abraham Lincoln, 1915-16, cast of original mask by Leonard Volk in 1860. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA.

File Name: 2318.jpg
Daniel Chester French, Plaster model for Abraham Lincoln, 1909-1912, State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by H. W. Bogart, 1912.)

File Name: 2319.jpg
Daniel Chester French in front of his statue for the Lincoln Memorial, 1921. Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library. (Photograph by De Witt Ward).

File Name: 2320.jpg
Lincoln Memorial under construction, 1915. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, photograph by Harris and Ewing.

File Name: 2311.jpg
Daniel Chester French, The Samuel F. Du Pont Memorial, 1921. James Goode Collection, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library.

File Name: 2310.jpg
Daniel Chester French (left) and architect Henry Bacon in front of the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, c. 1920-1922. u.S. Commission of Fine Arts,
Image courtesy of Dunlap Society Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library.

File Name: 2313.jpg
Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial, April 9, 1939. Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Photograph by Robert Scurlock).

File Name: 2324.jpg
Protesters against the Vietnam War marching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon, October 21, 1967. © 1967, The Washington Post

File Name: 2322.jpg
Jules Guerin, East Elevation of the Lincoln Memorial, watercolor. Wesleyan university Library, Special Collections & Archives.

File Name: 2321.jpg
Bernie Cleff, photographer, Lincoln Memorial Statue. Bernie Cleff Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia

File Name: lincoln_memorial_night.jpg
The Lincoln Memorial at night. Photo Terry Adams, Courtesy National Parks Service.

File Name: lincoln_closeup.jpg
Daniel Chester French's statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. Photo Terry Adams, Courtesy National Parks Service.

File Name: chesterwood_house_studio.jpg
Daniel Chester French's house and studio, designed by Henry Bacon, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by Ron Blunt).

File Name: chesterwood_studio.jpg
Studio of Daniel Chester French, designed by Henry Bacon, at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by Ron Blunt).

File Name: studio_interior.jpg
Interior of Daniel Chester French's studioat Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, designed by Henry Bacon. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by Ron Blunt).

File Name: lincoln_plasters.jpg
Three Lincoln models for the Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French at his Chesterwood Studio, Stockbridge, MA. Courtesy Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA. (Photograph by Ron Blunt).

File Name: GL-06-1261-038-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire

File Name: GL-06-1261-039-L.jpg
Veterans of the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, 31 May 1897. Robert A. Bell Post Memorial Photograph, Photograph Collection of the Grand Army of the Republic. Memorial Room, Massachusetts State House. Courtesy Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Arts Commission.

File Name: GL-06-1261-040-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1905. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-042-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Pencil Sketch for the Shaw Memorial, 1883. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-043-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-044-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-045-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-046-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-047-L.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Study Head of a Black Soldier. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-056-L.jpg
John Adams Whipple, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, 1863. Courtesy of Boston Athenaeum.

File Name: GL-06-1261-057-L.jpg
Opening Day, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 15 June 1901. Courtesy of William Coffin Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

File Name: GL-06-1261-059.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment,1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-060.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-061.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-062.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-063.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-064.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-065.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: GL-06-1261-066.jpg
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (detail), 1900. Courtesy of u.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.

File Name: david_selby.jpg
Actor David Selby, who is starring as President Abraham Lincoln in Ford Theatre’s world premiere of “The Heavens Are Hung In Black,” stopped by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on February 9 as conservator Shelley Sturman was in the process of installing the final plaster model of the Lincoln statue designed by American sculptor Daniel Chester French for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. It is joined by the original wood model of the Memorial by American architect Henry Bacon for a year-long focus exhibition, Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon. Photo by Rob Shelley. © 2009 National Gallery of Art.

File Name: img_3771.jpg
(l-r): Eileen R. Mackevich, executive director, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; Richard Moe, president, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Donna Hassler, director, Chesterwood; and Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, in front of the six-foot-high plaster final model of the most renowned Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), as designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. The model is included in the exhibition Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon, on view in the West Building, Main Floor, through February 12, 2010. © 2009 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington.