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Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man , an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts , and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Chester French in 1902. 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] His father, a polymath, was a judge and college president who popularized the French ...
Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor is a 2022 documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley about Daniel Chester French, a leading American sculptor best known for his rendering of the seated President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., produced by Heritage Film Project with the support of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Chesterwood. [1]
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The Minute Man [note 1] is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts.It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and was originally intended to be made of stone.
In 1914, Daniel Chester French was selected by the Lincoln Memorial Committee to create a Lincoln statue as part of the memorial to be designed by architect Henry Bacon (1866–1924). French was already famous for his 1874 The Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts , and his 1884 John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard ...
Four Continents is the collective name of four sculptures by Daniel Chester French, installed outside the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green in Manhattan, New York City. [1] French performed the commissions with associate Adolph A. Weinman .
Death and the Sculptor, also known as the Milmore Monument and The Angel of Death and the Young Sculptor [1] is a sculpture in bronze, and one of the most important and influential works of art created by sculptor Daniel Chester French.