Artist:	Robert Merrell Gage
Title:	Lincoln the Lawyer
Date:	1961
District:	First Supervisorial District
Location:	Los Angeles Superior Court Stanley Mosk Courthouse 111 North Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Department:	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

This larger-than-life bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln is located at the northeast corner of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse facing Grand Avenue. It was originally dedicated in 1961, and moved to a new location outside the courthouse and re-dedicated in 1989. The statue depicts Lincoln in his 40s, clean shaven, and dating to a period before he became president.

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About the Artist: Noted American sculptor Robert Merrell Gage (1892-1981) was a native of Topeka, Kansas. He relocated out West in 1923, and served as head of the sculpture department at USC for 30 years. In addition to numerous commissions of American figures such as Walt Whitman and John Brown, as well as architectural sculptures, one of Gage's life-long interests was in Abraham Lincoln. Gage executed likenesses of Lincoln in many stages of life, and even starred in a 1950s film in which he modeled Lincoln's features while narrating the story of his life.