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limestone is used on the interior walls and columns of
the chamber, and the ceiling tiles are made of Alabama
marble. The statue of Lincoln itself is carved from
Georgia marble. Bacon was awarded the Gold Medal
of the American Institute of Architects, his profession’s
Daniel Chester French was the leading American
sculptor of his day and his most famous work is the
statue of Lincoln, which dominates the interior of the
memorial. The plans originally specified a 12 ft. (3.6 m)
bronze statue, but it proved out of scale for the huge
building. The finished statue is 19 ft. (5.8 m) tall, which
means if Lincoln were standing, he would be 28 ft. (8.5 m)
tall. The sculpture took four years to complete, weighs
175 tons (159 metric tons), and is carved from 28 separate
Jules Guerin (1866–1946)
Jules Guerin was originally hired by Henry Bacon to
create watercolor illustrations of his proposed plans
for the memorial. Guerin was born in St Louis, Missouri,
a year after the end of the American Civil War. Later,
he went on to study art in Chicago and Europe. He
was thereafter selected to decorate the interior of the
memorial with two canvas murals 60 ft. (18.3 m) long by
12 ft. (3.7 m) high. Together, the murals visually symbolize
the principles of Abraham Lincoln and emphasize his
two great accomplishments — emancipation and unity.
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Drawing on tracing paper of Lincoln’s statue by Henry Bacon, 1917
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