Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures.
Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States...
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Emily Clarissa King (Barlow) Volk and the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk. He was named for his mother's maternal cousin, Stephen...
Irish-American poet, born James Shields James Shields (Volk), an 1893 bronze sculpture of James Shields by LeonardVolk James Shields (academic) (1918–1978), Scottish...
1812. The Wellcome Collection, London Life mask of Abraham Lincoln by LeonardVolk in 1860. Mask wearing customers in downtown Budapest. From the picture...
was erected in Rosehill Cemetery in 1864. The monument, designed by LeonardVolk, features a vigilant fireman standing atop a tall column. A fire hose...
Peter and the Wolf (Russian: Петя и волк, romanized: Pétya i volk, IPA: [ˈpʲetʲə i volk]) Op. 67 a "symphonic tale for children", is a musical composition...
by sculptor Avarel Fairbanks of Lincoln's life mask and hands made by LeonardVolk in 1860, the bullet fired from the Deringer pistol which ended the president's...
Philadelphia. Barnard first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under LeonardVolk. The prize he was awarded for a marble bust of a Young Girl enabled him...
studies at the Chicago Academy of Design, where he was influenced by LeonardVolk and graduated in 1874. His maternal uncle Edward E. Ayer was a successful...
have adopted this use of terminology are E. Wilbur Bock. The folklorist Leonard Norman Primiano argued that the use of "folk religion", as well as related...
Archer's stepfather was the Los Angeles banker and philanthropist Harry Volk. Between 1982 and 1986, she was a spokeswoman for Applied Scholastics, the...
chamber. This was followed by in-depth cytological studies by Thomas Volk and Leonard (1989, 1990). To study the morel life cycle they followed the development...
an antique counterfeit coin scale; a life mask of Abraham Lincoln by LeonardVolk; an antique Chinese fingernail guard; and a Playboy magazine used in...
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