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Lincoln Life Mask by Leonard Volk
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Leonard Wells Volk was born at Wellstown, New York. He first followed the trade of a marble cutter with his father in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1848 he opened a studio in St Louis, Missouri, and in 1855 was sent by his wife's cousin, politician Stephen A. Douglas, to Rome to study. Returning to America in 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In the spring of 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked...
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Volk’s Abraham Lincoln Life Mask (c. 1860)
Since ancient times, it’s been traditional to make life and death castings of the faces of famous figures. The 1860 mask by Leonard Volk was later used for a full-length statue for the Illinois State Capitol. This direct casting pays homage to the president’s eloquent articulation of the nation’s ideals. Mask arrives ready to hang or can rest amongst your other collectibles.
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About the Sculpture: Made in the U.S.A. certified pure bronze. Featuring recasts of hundreds of significant bronzes. Setting the standard in hand cast bronzes in the superior Lost Wax Process (Cire Perdue). Clay to wax to bronze-the lost wax process is a method for changing a sculpture made of soft clay into a harder material such as bronze, which captures the most minute detail of the artists original work. Practicing in the same manner of the old world masters, with devotion to quality, fidelity...
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In a studio in Chicago in 1860, President Abraham Lincoln posed for Leonard W. Volk. Volk created numerous paintings and sculptures of the President, including this life mask. The original cast is in the Smithsonian Institute.
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LEONARD W. VOLK. Signature: " Leonard W Volk ", 3¾x2¼ card. American sculptor Volk (1828-1895) , who had studied in Rome with the help of Illinois political figure Stephen A. Douglas, opened a studio in Chicago in 1959. Closely observing Douglas and his rival, Abraham Lincoln, during their debates, he sculpted both men and did Lincoln's life mask and made casts of both of his hands. Volk's monument to Douglas stands in Chicago and statues of Douglas and Lincoln grace the state Capitol in Springfield...
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LEONARD W. VOLK. Signature: " Leonard W Volk ", 3¾x2¼ card. American sculptor Volk (1828-1895) , who had studied in Rome with the help of Illinois political figure Stephen A. Douglas, opened a studio in Chicago in 1959. Closely observing Douglas and his rival, Abraham Lincoln, during their debates, he sculpted both men and did Lincoln's life mask and made casts of both of his hands. Volk's monument to Douglas stands in Chicago and statues of Douglas and Lincoln grace the state Capitol in Springfield...
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