“Deep & Subtle Expression” Exhibition Closes Tonight

By Erin Carlson Mast
Today is the last day to view the special exhibition, “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections.” The exhibition is located in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage and will be open from 9:30am-4:30pm this evening: http://www.lincolncottage.org/visit/index.htm
Collections in the show [...]

Last Weekend to See “Deep & Subtle Expression”

By Erin Carlson Mast
This is the last weekend to view the special exhibition, “A Deep and Subtle Expression: Lincoln in Sculpture – Works from National Trust Collections, ” which closes on December 19th, 2008.   The exhibition, located in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage, is open during regular visitor hours:  http://www.lincolncottage.org/visit/index.htm
Collections in the [...]

The Lincoln Memorial-Making Powerhouse: Daniel Chester French & Henry Bacon

By Morgan Little
Architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French’s professional collaboration began when Bacon built a studio and summer home for the sculptor (now known as Chesterwood, a National Trust for Historic Preservation site) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For the next twenty-five years, Bacon would design the architectural settings for over fifty of French’s public [...]

Early Proposals for a Memorial to Lincoln

 by Erin Carlson Mast
Three years after the centennial of Lincoln’s birth, Congress appropriated a large amount of money toward a memorial to him. As noted in a January 1912 issue of Harper’s Weekly, “The selection of a site for the Lincoln memorial at Washington is a question which is receiving attention throughout the United States. [...]