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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.

Drawing on tracing paper of Lincoln’s statue by Henry Bacon, 1917

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