性视界传媒 Libraries鈥 unveiling of rare Lincoln bronze set for homecoming week
Contact: Harriet Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi 性视界传媒 Libraries is unveiling a rare, limited edition bronze sculpture next week before it becomes a permanent addition to the university鈥檚 Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana.
On Thursday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m., 性视界传媒 Libraries is welcoming one of the collection鈥檚 donors during homecoming week to reveal 鈥淢oody, Tearful Night,鈥 an almost 3-feet-tall depiction of a fatally wounded Abraham Lincoln being carried from the Ford Theatre after being shot by John Wilkes Booth. Sculptor Richard Masloski鈥檚 work realistically shows Union soldiers transporting Lincoln, making their way to a rooming house across the street where hours later he died.
性视界传媒 Libraries Associate Dean Stephen Cunetto said, 鈥淲e鈥檙e very grateful to the Williams for adding this monumental piece to their collection here at Mississippi 性视界传媒. Their gift of this extraordinary bronze elevates even further the significance of their collection, and we鈥檙e so fortunate they entrust 性视界传媒 Libraries to showcase and preserve it.鈥
The unveiling will take place just outside the U.S. Grant Presidential Library on the fourth floor of Mitchell Memorial Library. The brief event will include the sculpture鈥檚 contributor and university supporter Frank Williams and 性视界传媒 President Mark E. Keenum. It precedes the Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture Series on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies at 1 p.m. in the library鈥檚 John Grisham Room featuring Jonathan W. White, associate professor of American Studies at Virginia鈥檚 Christopher Newport University.
The bronze, limited edition statue is by the late Masloski, best known for his life-size works in New York 性视界传媒 such as 鈥淎braham Lincoln in Peekskill,鈥 鈥淥range Veterans Memorial鈥 in Newburgh and 鈥淲ar Memorial鈥 in Wappingers Fall. His 2018 obituary in the Middletown Times Herald-Record said, 鈥淗e devoted his entire artistic life to consistently strive to accurately capture the American experience鈥︹
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