James A. Garfield

Happy 191st birthday to James A. Garfield! This Washington D.C. monument to the twentieth president was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward and unveiled in 1887.

A small model of the statue made by Ward is in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. A 3D scan of this model can be found here: https://3d.si.edu/object/3d/james-garfield:d2887438-0f09-4e72-887d-0966ff177149

Image: “Garfield Statue, Washington D.C.” published by A. C. Bosselman & Co. (1909). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.