Leonard Wells Volk was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures.
Life mask of Abraham Lincoln
Bronze bust of Lincoln by Leonard Volk, 1860, El Paso Museum of Art
Casts of Lincoln's hands
Memorial of Leonard Volk in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine.
Volk in 1917
The Second Minnesota Regiment at Missionary Ridge, c. 1906, Governor’s Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol
Ye Maiden's Reverie (1898), Berkshire Museum
Marion, Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (1914), University of Rochester