Giant Head of Abraham Lincoln also known as Lincoln Monument
And Abraham Lincoln Memorial Monument is a 3.8 meters high (12.5 feet)
And 9.1 meters tall ( 30 foot ) structure located at the Summit Rest Area on
Interstate 80 east of Laramie, Wyoming. This historic monument was constructed
in 1959 by Robert Russin, who was an art professor at the
University of Wyoming. Monument required ten tons of clay and eleven months of
work to create.
Lincoln’s head was built by Wyoming’s Parks Commission to honor Linco
birthday.
iginally it was mounted at the summit of Sherman Hill and later it was moved in
1969 when
ale su opened. The bronze head weighs over two tons. Lincoln’s monumental
bust in more than 30 bronze pieces designed to be bolted together. Russin built
the
4,500-pound bronze bust in Mexico during a period of 11 months using some 10
tons of clay in a lost-wax process of casting.
An estimated 200,000 travelers view the monumental sculpture annually.