. Statues of Abraham Lincoln. 19). Wayne Craven. Sculpture in America, (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968), p. 260(illus., fig. ). Whitney Museum of American Art. 200 Years of American Sculpture (New York:Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976), p. 61. (illus.). Milton Brown, American Art to 1900, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers,1977), p. 565 (illus., fig. 698). Washington University Gallery of Art, Illustrated Checklist of the Collection (: Washington University, 1981), p. 15 (illus.). Other Versions Bronze, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts B
. Statues of Abraham Lincoln. 19). Wayne Craven. Sculpture in America, (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968), p. 260(illus., fig. ). Whitney Museum of American Art. 200 Years of American Sculpture (New York:Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976), p. 61. (illus.). Milton Brown, American Art to 1900, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers,1977), p. 565 (illus., fig. 698). Washington University Gallery of Art, Illustrated Checklist of the Collection (: Washington University, 1981), p. 15 (illus.). Other Versions Bronze, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts Bronze, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey Marble, Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Marble, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri Bronze, City of Washington, Bronze, City of Boston, Massachusetts L LINCOLN FREEING THE SLAVE But the statue below has mor( often been known as Shine. Sir? It stands in Boston . V The sculptor is Thomas Bal • Prent IttmttrtiHtiu ). Thomas Ball, Creator OfThe Emancipation Monument By James Waldo Fawcett In Washington Star The 3-CENT ThirteenthAmendment commemorative, whichgoes on sale at the Worlds Fair postalstation, Flushing, N. Y., today (Octo-ber 20, 1940), will serve to introduceto a new generation of his countrymenthe sculptor who created the Eman-cipation monument in Lincoln Park,adapted as the motif of the stampdesign. His name was Thomas Ball, andhe was born at Charlestown, Mass.,June 3, 1819. Both parents were in-terested in music. Indeed, they metat a singing society meeting. Thefather, Thomas, St., was a house andsign painter, a man of more artistictemperament than his humble lotwould indicate, while the mother,Elizabeth Wyer Hall before her mar-riage, was the subject of a paintingwith which the boy won a medal at anexhibition of the Mechanics Associa-tion, Boston—an incident which con-firmed him in his ambition to be anartist. Meanwhile, after five years in aschool, whic
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