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A meme is spreading a doctored image of the Lincoln Memorial covered in graffiti to falsely claim that protesters defaced the Lincoln statue. The image was taken from a thumbnail for a video on ...
Art World Do You Know Who Designed the Lincoln Memorial Statue? A New Documentary About an Often Forgotten Sculptor Aims to Fix That. Daniel Chester French's work is embedded into the civic ...
However, photographs from Getty Images and The Associated Press show that this statue was not damaged or grafittied during these protests. Below is a photograph of the Lincoln Memorial taken on ...
THE FACTS: The Lincoln statue and surrounding monument were not vandalized during recent protests, according to a spokesman for the National Mall and Memorial Parks, although some graffiti was ...
Workers assemble sculptor Daniel Chester French’s Lincoln statue within the Lincoln Memorial on January 1, 1920. Set atop its base, the 19-by-19-foot statue soars to 30 feet. It weighs 175 tons.
Flannery’s design for the Lincoln Monument was for a 36-foot-high memorial made of white Italian marble, with an eight-foot statue of the president on a four-foot pedestal atop an 18-foot column ...
The Lincoln Memorial was built to honour Abraham Lincoln. Test your knowledge of the iconic Lincoln Memorial! Explore its ...
(A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone ...
The Emancipation Memorial, erected in 1876 in Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, has long drawn criticism for its paternalistic imagery of a standing President Lincoln looming over a kneeling black man ...
A replica statue of Abraham Lincoln has been moved to its permanent home in Floyd County, Ky. The Lincoln Memorial likeness had been in front of the law offices of disgraced attorney Eric Conn for ...
The statue, a replica of one in Washington, D.C., is called the Emancipation Memorial or Emancipation Group, and was donated to the city in 1879 to celebrate Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves.