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==Legacy== *Among Barnard's students were [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]], [[Abastenia St. Leger Eberle]], [[Beatrice Ashley Chanler]] and [[Malvina Hoffman]].<ref>Joan A. Marter, ed., "George Grey Barnard," ''The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1'', (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 202β04.</ref> * Barnard donated 100 of his plaster models to the Kankakee County Museum in [[Kankakee, Illinois]].<ref>Don Ward, [http://www.roundaboutmadison.com/InsidePages/ArchivedArticles/2012/0212Barnard.html "Sculptor Barnard left a controversial legacy,"] ''Round About Madison'' (Madison, Indiana), February 2012.</ref>{{efn|In December 2015, a plaster of a hand, a preliminary study for Barnard's 1917 ''[[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Cincinnati)|Abraham Lincoln]]'', was stolen from the Kankakee County Museum.<ref>Mitch Smith, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/lincolns-hands-kankakee-illinois-museum-theft-george-grey-barnard.html "Who's Steal Lincoln's Hand? Art Theft Baffles Illinois Museum,"] ''The New York Times'', January 3, 2016.</ref> In January 2016, [[Stephen Colbert]] mentioned the theft on the ''Late Show''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/lincoln-artifact-stolen-from-county-museum/article_2cb631a1-e54f-565c-8c09-3b55dac394bb.html|title=Lincoln artifact stolen from county museum|date=15 December 2015 }}</ref> The hand was returned to the Museum in February 2017, after being found at a local church. The thief was never identified.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/after-months-stolen-lincoln-s-hand-returned-to-museum/article_ae1313b6-15d6-511f-8b64-9471399a595a.html|title = After 14 months, stolen Lincoln's hand returned to museum| date=13 February 2017 }}</ref>}} * A collection of his Medieval architectural elements is at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]. * The George Grey Barnard Sculpture Garden was created in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (his birthplace) in 1978.<ref>[http://www.bellefontearts.org/Talleyrand.htm "Talleyrand Park,"] from Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association.</ref>
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