The E. M. Viquesney "Spirit of the American Doughboy" Database
1938, 1939: "LINCOLN AS AN INDIANA BOY"
Viquesney and his ''Lincoln as an Indiana Boy''.
After his great successes with "The Spirit of the American Doughboy" and the "Imp-O-Luck" in the 1920s, Viquesney continued his career in the years between the World Wars by creating busts and sculptures of people he respected or admired, among them President Abraham Lincoln.
A two-foot version of the Lincoln sculpture (inset and below, left) was supposed to have been installed on the campus of what is now Indiana State University on March 18, 1940. But the statue isn't there, and neither the University nor Indiana State Library can find any record of such an installation, although the scheduled event was covered with great fanfare in an Indianapolis Sunday Star article on February 11, 1940, which devoted all of its front page section 5 to it.
What happened to the statue? Nobody knows. It's just another of the many mysteries surrounding Ernest Moore Viquesney.
A two-foot version of the Lincoln sculpture (inset and below, left) was supposed to have been installed on the campus of what is now Indiana State University on March 18, 1940. But the statue isn't there, and neither the University nor Indiana State Library can find any record of such an installation, although the scheduled event was covered with great fanfare in an Indianapolis Sunday Star article on February 11, 1940, which devoted all of its front page section 5 to it.
What happened to the statue? Nobody knows. It's just another of the many mysteries surrounding Ernest Moore Viquesney.
 Photo: Indianapolis Sunday Star, February 11, 1940. Click image to enlarge. Above, left: The two-foot statue of Abraham Lincoln that was to have been installed at what was then the new Union Building at Indiana State Teachers' College (now Indiana State U.) in Terre Haute. It never made it there, and nobody knows of its whereabouts.
The miniature at top right was about 6 inches tall and bears the inscription "I will get ready and maybe someday my chance will come", instead of "Lincoln as an Indiana Boy". There were at least three sizes and variations in style, as well as bookend sets. The bust at right is called "Abe Lincoln, Lawyer", about eight inches tall. |
 Viquesney's ''Lincoln as an Indiana Boy'', 1939. It also came as a set of bookends.  Photo: Harlan Ogle, Monticello, Kentucky. |
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