Smithsonian American Art Museum
Recumbent Lion (facing left)
Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · ca. 1895
Recumbent Lion is a partial sketch model of Paul Wayland Bartlett’s design for the Sherman Monument competition. In 1892 the federal government organized a competition to design a statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general famed for his March to the Sea. Bartlett was chosen as a finalist but did not win the commission. Recumbent Lion would have been one of four, flanking the two entrances to the monument.
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