
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.
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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
Bust of Major General at Memorial Hall, Harvard University, (1881)
William Francis Bartlett
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, 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
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
Brooklyn and Manhattan, seated figures from the , Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, (1915)
Manhattan Bridge
, memorial to Spencer Trask, in Saratoga Springs, New York, at Congress Park, 1915
The Spirit of Life
Memorial, on the perimeter of Prospect Park (Brooklyn), at 9th Street and Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York, (1917)
Marquis de Lafayette
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
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
American Youth, Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
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
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; "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