Henry Augustus Lukeman

Henry Augustus Lukeman was an American sculptor, specializing in historical monuments. Noted among his works are the World War I monument in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the Kit Carson Monument in Trinidad, Colorado and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia.

Henry Augustus Lukeman was born on January 28, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia, and was raised in New York City. He is said to have begun lessons at the National Academy and the Cooper Union School at age eleven, though a National Academy of Design source notes that that schools registration records do not bear out this historical supposition. It is also reported that he began sculpting at ageat a boys club miniature workshop, working in clay and wood from agesto 13.

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