Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Although this deed established his reputation, the aviator became equally famous as a result of the publicity related to the kidnapping of his son in 1932.
Davidson modeled the bust in Paris shortly before World War II began. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., owns a cast from an earlier edition and dates it 1937.
