She took professional photos of nearly all of Russin’s work and was mentioned by the application as being critical to his enduring success. UW art professor Robert Russin’s massive bronze and granite bust of Abraham Lincoln is installed during a snowstorm in 1959. Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee at the dedication ceremony of Robert Russin’s Lincoln Monument on Oct. 18, 1959. McDonalds noted that, throughout all his work, he avoided western cowboy tropes that became inseparable from Wyoming art of the time. The Lincoln Monument embodies that better than all his works.