Daniel Chester French's solemn white marble sculpture of Lincoln has presided over history since its 1922 dedication. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., looks at ...

Left: Daniel Chester French with the six-foot model of the seated Abraham Lincoln in the Chesterwood Studio, 1925.(Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. Chesterwood Archives, Chapin Library ...

Yet the Lincoln Memorial is just 100 years old. It opened on the National Mall, the Potomac River flowing behind it, on May 30, 1922. That was 57 years after President Abraham Lincoln was felled ...

Placid. Peaceful. You could be forgiven for thinking, when you look at the benign figure of Abraham Lincoln, sitting on his throne at the Lincoln Memorial, that the 16th president of these United ...

Daniel Chester French's solemn white marble sculpture of Lincoln has presided over history since its 1922 dedication. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., looks at ...