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Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Chester French

(1850-04-20)April 20, 1850

October 7, 1931(1931-10-07) (aged 81)

Family[edit]

French was the son of Anne Richardson (1811–1856), daughter of William Merchant Richardson (1774–1838), chief justice of New Hampshire; and of Henry Flagg French (1813–1885). His siblings were Henriette Van Mater French Hollis (1839–1911), Sarah Flagg French Bartlett (1846–1883), and William M.R. French (1843–1914). He was the uncle of Senator Henry F. Hollis.

French's summer home and studio – designed by his architect friend and frequent collaborator Henry Bacon – is now a historic site owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[16]

Chesterwood

In 1940, French was selected as one of five artists to be honored in the 35-stamp "Famous Americans" series.

[17]

was an American indie band named for the artist.

Chester French

"Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor" (2022) is a documentary film by produced in association with Chesterwood and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.HD, 60 minutes.

Eduardo Montes-Bradley

at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, (1874)

The Minute Man

Bust of Major General at Memorial Hall, Harvard University, (1881)

William Francis Bartlett

, Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1884)

John Harvard

, National Statuary Hall, Washington DC, (1889)

Lewis Cass

and Alice Cogswell (1889), Gallaudet University, Washington, DC

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

monument San Francisco, California, (1891)

Thomas Starr King

the colossal centerpiece of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago.[18]

Statue of The Republic

Memorial, intersection of Boylston Street and the Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, (1897)

John Boyle O'Reilly

memorial, Old Suffolk County Court House, Boston, Massachusetts, (1898)

Rufus Choate

Memorial, on the perimeter wall of Central Park, at 5th Avenue at 70th Street, opposite the Frick Collection, in New York City, (1900)

Richard Morris Hunt

at the New Hampshire State House, Concord, New Hampshire (1902)

Commodore George H. Perkins Monument

(1903), on the campus of Columbia University in New York City

Alma Mater

Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts

Statue of Wendell Phillips

The Four Continents – Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, a group of four statues outside the at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Manhattan, NYC (1907)

National Museum of the American Indian

Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts

George Robert White Memorial

first president of Southern Railway, located in front of Goode Building (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, (1910)

Statue of Samuel Spencer

Memorial, 10th and The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri (1909)

August Meyer

Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia (1910)

James Oglethorpe Monument

at the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1912)

Standing Lincoln

Brooklyn and Manhattan, seated figures from the , Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, (1915)

Manhattan Bridge

Henry Bacon designer, Jno. Williams, Inc. (NY) founder, Danville, Illinois. (1915)

Minuteman

, memorial to Spencer Trask, in Saratoga Springs, New York, at Congress Park, 1915

The Spirit of Life

in the Lincoln Memorial (1914–22), executed by the Piccirilli Brothers.[19]

Abraham Lincoln

The Weaver, outside the Library in South Kingstown, Rhode Island (1919).[20]

Peace Dale

Memorial, on the perimeter of Prospect Park (Brooklyn), at 9th Street and Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York, (1917)

Marquis de Lafayette

, Dupont Circle, Washington DC (1921)

Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain

Memorial, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Henry Bacon architect (1921)

Alfred Tredway White

Memorial Fountain, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan (1921).

Russell Alger

Marquis de Lafayette Statue, campus, Easton, Pennsylvania (1921).

Lafayette College

Gale Park War Memorial & Park, (1922)

Exeter, New Hampshire

Bust of and reliefs of Boabdil and Rip Van Winkle for the Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington, New York, (1927)

Washington Irving

, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. (1930)

Beneficence

in Florida, New York (1930)[21]

William Henry Seward Memorial

Death and the Wounded Soldier aka Death and Youth, The Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, , Concord, New Hampshire

St. Paul's School

James Woods, "Uncle Jimmy" Green, , Lawrence, KS. (1924)

University of Kansas

, Draper Memorial Park, Milford, Massachusetts. (1912)

Gen. William Franklin Draper

Statue of The Republic, (1893, reduced vers. 1918), Chicago

Statue of The Republic, (1893, reduced vers. 1918), Chicago

Architecture (1901), Richard Morris Hunt Memorial

Architecture (1901), Richard Morris Hunt Memorial

Dupont Circle Fountain (1921), Dupont Circle, Washington DC

Dupont Circle Fountain (1921), Dupont Circle, Washington DC

Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

American Youth, Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

American Youth, Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jurisprudence, Federal Building, (1910) Cleveland, Ohio

Jurisprudence, Federal Building, (1910) Cleveland, Ohio

The Spirit of Life (1915), Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY

The Spirit of Life (1915), Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY

Indian Corn
(Bull by Edward Clark Potter)

Indian Corn (Bull by Edward Clark Potter)

Buck, Diane M. and Virginia A. Palmer, Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee: A Cultural and Historical Guidebook, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995

American Masters of Sculpture, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York 1913

Caffin, Charles H.

Caffin, in International Studio, volumes xx (1903), lx (1910), and lxvi (1912)

Carlock, Marty, A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston from Newburyport to Plymouth, The Harvard Common Press, Boston Massachusetts, 1988

Chesterwood Archives, Geographical List of Works: DRAFT, unpublished manuscript, April 14, 1993

Coughlan, in Magazine of Art (1901)

Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968

Cresson, Margaret French, Journey into Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1947

Dearinger, David, Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed, Boston Athenaeum, 2016

Hucke, Matt and Ursela Bielski, Graveyards of Chicago: the People, History, Art and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries, Lake Claremont Press, Chicago, 1999

Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America

Lanctot, Barbara, A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery, Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, 1988

Richman, Michael, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, The Preservation Press, Washington DC, 1976

Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925

Tolles, Thayer. . In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (June 2010)

"Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)"

Wilson, Susan, Garden of Memorials: A Guide to Historic Forest Hills, Forest Hills Educational Trust

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French: Sculpture In Situ

—Summer home, studio, and garden of sculptor Daniel Chester French

Chesterwood Estate and Museum

(pp. 158–182; see p. 177) in Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2012

"F"

from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daniel Chester French exhibition brochure

; "Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor – A Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan

"Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor"