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Passing Glances
Presidents are on our collective minds these days, with both the fall election and the approaching bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Dominican University’s Lincoln bust is an intriguing portrayal of the Congressman from Illinois and 16th President of the United States. The Dominican bust is a bronze cast of the marble original that stood in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, DC for more than six decades; the original now resides in the Capitol Crypt. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), examined scores of historical photographs as well as the Lincoln life mask made in 1860, creating what Robert T. Lincoln, the president’s son, praised as “the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen.” Borglum, best known as the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore monument, carved the original in 1908; the Dominican bronze arrived on campus during the 1960s, a gift from Phillip and Elsie Sang of River Forest.
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