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- 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.
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French was a prolific sculptor, creating 92 public sculptures from 1871 until his death in 1931. His sculptures are mostly in the eastern and midwestern United States, but one, Thomas Starr King, is in San Francisco, and two, General George Washington and the Marseillaise Memorial, are in France.
NamePhotoLocationCity Or NeighborhoodPeace and Vigilance—United States Customhouse and Post Office ...General George Meade—Smith Memorial Arch 39°58′39″N 75°12′24″W ...Governor John S. Pillsbury—University of Minnesota 44°58′42″N ...Wisdom—Minnesota State Capitol 44°57′17″N ...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 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.
French worked overseas in the studio of Thomas Ball for two years and returned to America where, until his death in 1931, he executed allegorical and historical figures for public spaces and portrait statues for private consumption. His work graces public buildings, parks, and gardens from Boston to Nebraska.
- April 20, 1850
- October 7, 1931
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.
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 (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.
