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Recumbent Lion (facing left)
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About this work
Recumbent Lion is a partial sketch model of Paul Wayland Bartlett’s design for the Sherman Monument competition. In 1892 the federal government organized a competition to design a statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general famed for his March to the Sea. Bartlett was chosen as a finalist but did not win the commission. Recumbent Lion would have been one of four, flanking the two entrances to the monument.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineRecumbent Lion (facing left). ca. 1895. Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III. CC0.
