Oh, this is exciting! As some may recall, I included Lincoln City, Oregon in my Pacific Northwest trip to see this sculpture of Abe Lincoln on a Horse (I believe the proper name is The Circuit Rider). In that post from August I mentioned that there were two more copies of the sculpture. Yesterday I got to see one of them.
Abe Lincoln on a Horse stands on the lawn in front of Bray Hall on the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in Syracuse. Across the parking lot is Syracuse University's Carrier Dome. The sculpture was moved to its present location a year-and-a-half ago.
I took the bottom photo at work this afternoon. Our Abe on a Horse is much greener than the sculptures in Oregon and Syracuse!
Guess I've got to go to Connecticut to see the remaining copy.
Very cool.
Posted by: Marie | 29 December 2011 at 01:04 AM
The Syracuse version is the best located of the three I've seen. It is still pretty hidden from the public though.
Posted by: Joe | 29 December 2011 at 12:11 PM
that's one tired looking horse!
Posted by: Jeff | 03 January 2012 at 05:40 PM
You'd be tired too if Abe Lincoln sat on your back for eighty years.
Posted by: Joe | 04 January 2012 at 06:39 AM
It's lovely you discovered this sculpture. Perhaps you would be interested in the creator, Anna Hyatt Huntington. There are many descriptions of her work and life, but here is one that is very personal:
http://www.esf.edu/communications/spruce/2005.pdf (go to pages 7-8)
Besides sculpture, the Huntingtons gave another amazing gift to the now State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse: a huge property in the central Adirondacks deeded especially for research. More information on the 15,000 acre field research station can be found here: http://www.esf.edu/aec/facilities/hwf.htm and there is a book too.
Feel free to contact me with questions and enjoy your photographic forays.
Posted by: S. McNulty | 04 January 2012 at 02:28 PM
Hi, I recently came back from a trip to Salzburg, Austria where I found another copy of this statue. It was gifted to them as well. I was curious as to where the other copies were and discovered your post in the process.
Posted by: Hon | 02 October 2013 at 10:27 PM
Very cool. I had no idea this sculpture would be in Austria.
Posted by: Joe | 03 October 2013 at 07:03 AM