The Young Lincoln

The Young Lincoln is a statue of Abraham Lincoln created by James Lee Hansen (1917-1998) in 1941, installed in the Spring Street Courthouse, in Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California.

The statue exemplifies public art of the New Deal, including its depiction of Lincoln in his youth, a popular topic of the era. It was built as a result of Hansen winning a 1939 Federal Works Agency art contest, and it was the first large sculpture he had ever completed. In creating the statue, Hansen "developed his own interpretation of Lincoln, portraying him as a young man standing barefoot and shirtless - a man of deep sentiment and understanding."

In 2019, it gained renewed attention on Twitter, wherein users nicknamed the statue "Hot Lincoln."