- CountryUS
- Town:CT Bethel
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Year of creation:1961
- Rider(s):Lincoln, Abraham
(1809–1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. Lincoln’s death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning. Scholars and the public rank Lincoln consistently as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents, the others being George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Sculptor(s):Hyatt Huntington, Anna Vaughn
(1876–1973) was an exceptional and highly productive American sculptress. She was an animalier of outstanding achievement. Working over a period of 70 years in a traditional, academic style, she is recognized as one of world’s finest animal sculptors. Replicas of her statues and sculptures can be found all around the world.
Anna Hyatt-Huntington sculpted the only equestrian statue of Abraham Lincoln, showing him as a young man, riding a horse, but totally preoccupied reading a book.
A more than life-size copy of this statue stands in Syracuse New York
