This realistic representation is recognizable not only as a man, but also as our sixteenth president. This sculpture is larger than life-size standing ten feet tall and depicts Lincoln at the time of the Civil War. His sad expression reflects the strife between the North and the South.

George Fite Waters was born in San Francisco, California, in 1894 and traveled to Europe to study art and sculpture. He particularly liked to sculpt realistic figures and representations of real people. Though Waters was an American artist, he cast this sculpture in France on Lincoln's birthday in 1927. Like many sculptures, this piece had a patron: someone who pays and commissions the work to be done. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe was the patron, but died before the statue was erected. This piece is considered one of the best statues of President Lincoln.

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