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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.
At his artistic maturity, Daniel Chester French was an outstanding architectural and public sculptor in the United States. After Saint-Gaudens’s death in 1907, he became the foremost sculptor in America working in the classical tradition—a position relinquished only at his death.
Daniel Chester French (born April 20, 1850, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.—died October 7, 1931, Stockbridge, Massachusetts) was a sculptor of bronze and marble statues and monuments whose work is probably more familiar to a wider American audience than that of any other native sculptor.
Daniel Chester French. born Exeter, NH 1850-died Stockbridge, MA 1931. Sculptor. Fame came early with The Minute Man (1875) at Concord, Mass., and he quickly moved to the forefront of American sculpture, creating allegorical figures in the Neoclassical style.
Daniel Chester French attained prominence as the leading American monumental sculptor of the early twentieth century. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he spent his youth in Cambridge and Amherst, Massachusetts, before moving with his family to Concord in 1867.
Jun 29, 2012 · Chesterwood is the home, studio and gardens of America's foremost public sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), located on 122 acres in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) was an American sculptor who was active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire , to Anne Richardson French and Henry Flagg French on April 20, 1850. [1]
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor who molded popular understanding of American history and identity in a way few others in the arts have. He is best known for sculpting the Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts and marble statue of Abraham Lincoln within the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Daniel Chester French, one of the most prolific and acclaimed sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is best known for his monumental work, the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, completed in 1922.
Daniel Chester French, 1874. Born April 20, 1850 in Exeter NH to Henry and Anne (Richardson) French. At age 17 Daniel and his family moved to Concord MA and lived near Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Alcott family. May Alcott was later one of Daniel’s art teachers.
