Abraham Lincoln, 1918

  • Gutzon Borglum, American, 1867-1941

Marble

  • Overall: 72 inches (182.9 cm)

Gift of Ralph H. Booth

24.6

Department

American Art before 1950

Inscribed, 1918 Inscribed, on pedestal: Abraham Lincoln | 1809 [leaf decoration] 1865 | By Gutzon Borglum | American 1867-1941 | Gift of | Ralph Harman Booth | 1924 | Erected February 12, 1956 | by American citizens of | German ancestry through | the German American | Cultural Center, Detroit

Samuel P. Colt, Providence, Rhode Island

Ralph H. Booth

1924-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA, 6, 1 (1924): (ill.).

Gutzon Borglum, Abraham Lincoln, 1918, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ralph H. Booth, 24.6.