Chicago North / The Young Lincoln (1945) - by Charles Keck

 

The Young Lincoln - by Charles Keck

1945 

 Bronze / 13-foot tall

Location: Senn (Nicholas) Park /

Triangular corner between N. Ridge Ave., N Clark Street and W. Thorndale Ave.

The Chicago Park District website informs... Keck's family donated the Young Lincoln to the G.A.R. collection of Chicago Public Library, which is now the Chicago Cultural Center. In 1997, the Chicago Public Library loaned the monument to the Chicago Park District to allow its installation in Senn Park on the city's North Side.

Chicago North / The Chicago Lincoln (1956) - by Avard Fairbanks

 

The Chicago Lincoln - by Avard Fairbanks

1956 / Bronze

Location: Lincoln Square / Lawrence and Western Avenue

Monument was erected by the Illinois Lincoln Memorial Committee

IIT Campus [Abraham Lincoln - by Gutzon Borglum]

Abraham Lincoln - by Gutzon Borglum 

Location: IIT campus

This bronze replica of the marble head of Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. was presented to Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) by Philip D. Sang and Elsie O. Sang, River Forest, Illinois, 1970.

Chicago West - Garfield Park / Lincoln, The Railsplitter (1911) - by Charles J. Mulligan

Lincoln, the Railsplitter

Lincoln, The Railsplitter - by Charles J. Mulligan

1911

Location: Garfield Park /

Northwest corner of Washington and Central Park Blvd.

The sculpture was commissioned by the West Park Commission, which was a precursor to the Chacago Park District. 

The sculpture "Lincoln, the Railsplitter" depicts a young Abraham Lincoln, who worked hard to rise from humble beginnings to become a great president.

The sculptor Charles Mulligan was an Irish immigrant who worked as a stone cutter before becoming an artist. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He also worked as an assistant in the Chicagho studio of Lorado Taft. Mulligan also created the William McKinley Monument. 

AIC [Abraham Lincoln - by Daniel Chester French]

Abraham Lincoln - by Daniel Chester French 

Modeled: 1916 / Cast After: 1916

Bronze

This bronze sculpture is a reduced version of the full-size statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., which French worked with architect Henry Bacon.

 Location: Art Institute of Chicago:

 Gallery of American Art Lower Level: Sculpture Court, Gallery 171.

Lincoln Park / Abraham Lincoln Monument (1887) - by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Abraham Lincoln Monument 

- by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (sculptor), Stanford White (architect)

Year Completed: 1887

Address: Lincoln Park at North Dearborn Parkway

Gift of Eli Bates

Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: December 12, 2001

Chicago Loop - Grant Park / Sitting Lincoln (1926) - by Augustus Saint Gaudens

Sitting Lincoln - by Auguste Saint Gaudens

Sitting Lincoln Monument 

- by  Augustus Saint-Gaudens (sculptor) 

& 

Stanford White (architect) - designed the enormous 150-foot semi-circular exedra.

Unveiled: 1926 

Location: North President's Court, Grant Park

A gift to the city of Chicago by John Crerar, who left a $100,000 bequest in 1889 to construct a Lincoln statue. His trustees commissioned the sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens to create this tribute.