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Bacon, Henry

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Bacon, Henry, 1866–1924, American architect, b. Watseka, Ill. He began his professional career with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, but after 1903 he practiced independently. Among the important structures designed by him are the Lincoln Memorial Lincoln Memorial, monument, 107 acres (45 hectares), in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.; built 1914–17. The building, designed by Henry Bacon and styled after a Greek temple, has 36 Doric columns representing the states of the Union at the time of Lincoln's
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 at Washington, D.C. (completed 1917), and the World War Memorial at Yale Univ.


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Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, are all such absurd artists; I think I'm like them.
 
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