Amos Bixby and Langdon Morse

Two Cornish-area men posed for Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln statues. Langdon Morse posed for Abraham Lincoln: The Man in 1885. At six feet, four inches in height, Morse was precisely the type of "Lincoln-shaped man" that Saint-Gaudens' friend Charles Beaman had insisted lived in the Cornish area. Passionate about capturing detail in sculpted clothing, Saint-Gaudens would have Morse tramp through the meadow in his Lincoln costume, just to get the right scuffs and wrinkles in the fabric.

In 1897, Saint-Gaudens began work on his second Lincoln monument, Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State. Amos Bixby posed for this sculpture, which was completed shortly before the sculptor's death.