Abraham Lincoln 1861 planetary orbits art The Iron Sentinel: Manhattan's Wedge

The Iron Sentinel: Manhattan's Wedge of Progress renders the Flatiron's improbable prow slicing the seam of Broadway and Fifth

theater marquees

the hand-drafted weight of the linework

summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding

this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders

Abraham Lincoln 1861 planetary orbits art The Iron Sentinel: Manhattan's WedgeAbraham Lincoln 1861 a portrait from the threshold year, when the rail splitter from Illinois took the oath into a Union already fracturing beneath him. The likeness carries the gaunt composure of a man who understood, perhaps better than anyone, what the next four years would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and