The statue of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Kirke Brown was dedicated in 1870 and moved to its present location in 1930.

Though Brown, like many of his generation, made an obligatory visit to Italy to study, he was part of a group of sculptors attempting to establish a truly American sculptural idiom. Brown also created a similar portrait of Lincoln in Prospect Park (1869), and his nephew and pupil Henry Kirke Bush-Brown (1857-1935) crafted the bronze bust for Gettysburg&amp;rsquo;s Lincoln Memorial.  

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