English: This is one figure in a pair of bronze statuettes by Adolph A. Weinman, often referred to as Adolph Alexander Weinman, with a moss green patina. "Rising Day" is the male of the pair, his arms and wings perfectly aligned and perpendicular to his body. His head faces up and his feet are lifted as if preparing to leap from the ground. The original, much larger, figures were featured in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Four bronze pairs of Descending Night and Rising Day were cast from the working models for the larger statues, and the pair present in the White House Collection are from an undetermined number of reductions cast by Roman Bronze works. Weinman worked in a neoclassical style, and is most well-known for designing the "Mercury dime" and the "Walking Liberty half-dollar" although he identified himself primarily as an architectural sculptor.