Background
Gage was born in Topeka, Kansas and studied in the Topeka public schools and at Washburn University.
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Robert Gage
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He studied art in New York and France and worked in the studio of Gutzon Borglum as an assistant.
Career
He worked on ranches in the Midwest before settling on an art career. In 1916, he set up a sculpture studio in a barn behind his house in Topeka. His first public commission was for a statue of Abraham Lincoln that is now on the grounds of the Kansas State Capitol.
He began teaching sculpture at Washburn and at the Kansas City Art Institute.
They moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1924 and built a studio in their home in the Santa Monica Canyon. He was appointed professor of sculpture at the University of Southern California and rose to the head of the department.
Gage executed likenesses of Lincoln in many stages of the president"s life. In 1955 Gage starred in a short film The Face of Lincoln, in which he modeled Lincoln"s features while narrating the story of his life.
Gage executed numerous commissions in the Los Angeles area and served on the sculpture commission for the 1936 Olympics.
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American