Lincoln Trail Monument - Westport, IL - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

County of statue: Lawrence County
Location of statue: IL 33, W. end Lincoln Memorial Bridge, Westport
Artist: Nellie Verne Walker, 1874-1973, sculptor

Text on monument:
(Center Base- proper right): N. V. Walker, Sc.
(Foundation Base - Front):

In the late winter of 1830 a few weeks after his 21st birthday
Abraham Lincoln passed this way with his father's family
Entering the State of Illinois for the first time
Presented to the State of Illinois by the Illinois Organization
Daughters of the American Revolution, June 14, 1938 (Foundation Base - proper left): REPOSITORY
1938
1988 (Foundation Base - proper right):
Just below the incised is a plaque which reads:
50th Anniversary
Lovingly Restored for the
People of Illinois
and rededicated by the
Illinois State Organization NSDAR
October 8, 1988 Mrs. Ronald L. Hordhorst
State Regent

Proper Description:
"A full-length standing bronze figure of Lincoln set against a sculptured limestone wall panel. Lincoln holds a stick in his right hand. The wall relief is composed of several rectangular blocks and depicts the profiles of three adults and two children walking with an ox-driven covered wagon. An angel flies above the group looking back at them." ~ Smithsonian American Art Museum

TITLE: Lincoln Trail Monument ARTIST(S): Nellie Verne Walker DATE: 1938 MEDIUM: Cast bronze and Indiana limestone CONTROL NUMBER: IAS IL000296 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: North side of Illinois Hwy 33, Just off the west end of the Lincoln Memorial Bridge to Vincennes, Indiana 10 miles east of Lawrenceville Westport, Illinois Date should be June 14, 1938; Rededicated Oct. 8, 1988 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: Listed as in Lawrenceville, but is actually 10 miles E. of Lawrenceville. I could find nothing on the bronze base for cast statue, it is very thin and sits on a marble intermediary base which is on a concrete foundation base. (see photos) The sig. of N.V. WALKER, Sc. is on the thin middle marble base.

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