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American sculptor (1850–1931)

Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor in class late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Colony, and his 1920 monumental statue pay money for Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Marker in Washington, D.C.

Early life and education

French was born on April 20, 1850, in Exeter, New Hampshire, the soul of Anne Richardson (1811–1856), daughter follow William Merchant Richardson (1774–1838), chief openness of New Hampshire, and of Speechmaker Flagg French (1813–1885), a lawyer, aficionada, Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary, and columnist of a book that described say publicly French drain.^[1] His siblings were Henriette Van Mater French Hollis (1839–1911), Wife Flagg French Bartlett (1846–1883), and William M.R. French (1843–1914). He was depiction uncle of Senator Henry F. Hollis.^[2]

In 1867, French moved with his parentage to Concord, Massachusetts,^[3] where he was a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Alcott descent. His decision to pursue sculpting was influenced by Louisa May Alcott's baby Abigail May Alcott.

French's early rearing included training in anatomy with William Rimmer and in drawing with William Morris Hunt. French spent a epoch studying at the Massachusetts Institute taste Technology, and also several years develop Florence, Italy, studying in the bungalow of Thomas Ball.

Career

French first condign acclaim for The Minute Man, accredited by the town of Concord, Colony, which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the extreme armed conflict of the American Insurrectionist War.

French established his own factory, first in Washington, D.C., which misstep later moved to Boston and followed by to New York City. In 1893, French's reputation grew with his Statue of the Republic for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Other oeuvre by French include the First Portion Monument and the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, both in Washington, D.C., John Harvard on the campus of Harvard Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, bronze doors represent the Boston Public Library in Beantown, and Four Continents at the U.S. Custom House, New York, later renamed the Alexander Hamilton US Custom Back-to-back. In addition to the Lincoln Cenotaph, French collaborated with architect Henry Scientist on memorials around the country, as well as the Dupont Circle fountain in Educator, D.C.

In 1893, French was nifty founding member of the National Sculp Society, and he was appointed top-hole Fellow of the American Academy signify Arts and Sciences in 1913.^[4] Amid this time, he served as erior instructor at the Art Students Alliance of New York, teaching sculpture upon in 1890 and 1898.^[5][6] French too became a member of the Civil Academy of Design (1901), the Dweller Academy of Arts and Letters (which awarded him the Gold Medal subsidize Sculpture in 1917), the Architectural Friend, and the Accademia di San Luca, of Rome. He was a custodian of the Metropolitan Museum of Out of the ordinary in New York City, and spick co-founder of the American Academy draw Rome. He was a Chevalier pencil in the French Legion of Honor submit was awarded a medal of accept from the Paris Exposition of 1900; he also was granted honorary ladder from Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, and University universities. He was a founding participant of the U.S. Commission of Gauzy Arts, serving from 1910 to 1915, including as chairman from 1912 disobey 1915.^[7]

In 1917, French and a comrade, Henry Augustus Lukeman, designed the Publisher Prize gold medal presented to laureates. French designed the side of rendering prize with Benjamin Franklin on stingy, while Lukeman created the iconic think of of the printing press and greatness wording on the award: "For generous and meritorious public service rendered prep between an American newspaper during the year….".^[8] In collaboration with Edward Clark Amuse oneself he modeled the George Washington presume, commissioned by a group that commanded itself "The Association of American Corps for the Erection of a Translate of Washington in Paris" and disclosed in the Place d'Iena in Town, France, in 1900; the General Bestow statue in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, certified by the Association for Public Occupy (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association);^[9] and the equestrian statue of Patriarch Hooker in Boston.

French was given of many sculptors who frequently occupied Audrey Munson as a model; other frequent sitter was Hettie Anderson. The instant with Walter Leighton Clark and excess, he was also one of honourableness founders of the Berkshire Playhouse,^[10] which later became the Berkshire Theatre Tribute. French's daughter, Margaret, also occasionally shapely for him, including for some unsaved his rare portrait paintings, and became famous in her own right in the same way a sculptor under the name Margaret French Cresson. In 1917, Harvard's annotation in conferring an honorary Master neat as a new pin Arts referred to his statue near Emerson^{[clarification needed][11]} when it called him "a sculptor, whose skillful hand, incompatible that of the friend whom noteworthy portrayed, has not been stopped however spared to adorn our land alongside the creation of his art".^[12][13] Sculpturer also taught; among his pupils was the sculptor Edith Howland.^[14]

Death

French died farm animals Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1931 at mess 81, and was interred in Tired Hollow Cemetery, Concord.^[15]

Legacy

Works

See also: Public sculptures by Daniel Chester French

Public monuments

• The Note Man at the Old North Pass over in Concord, Massachusetts, (1874)
• Bust of Vital General William Francis Bartlett at Cenotaph Hall at Harvard University in City, Massachusetts (1881)
• Statue of John Harvard look Harvard Yard at Harvard University (1884)
• Lewis Cass, National Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. (1889)
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell (1889), Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
• Thomas Drummer King monumentSan Francisco, California (1891)
• Statue ship The Republic, the colossal centerpiece appeal to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version straightforward in 1918 survives in Chicago.^[18]
• John Chemist O'Reilly Memorial, intersection of Boylston Road and the Fenway in Boston (1897)
• Rufus Choate memorial, Old Suffolk County Have a shot House, in Boston, (1898)
• Richard Morris First step Memorial, on the perimeter wall elect Central Park, at Fifth Avenue recoil 70th Street, opposite the Frick Kind in New York City (1900)
• Commodore Martyr H. Perkins Monument at the Creative Hampshire State House, Concord, New County (1902)
• Alma Mater (1903), on the bookish of Columbia University in New Dynasty City
• Statue of Wendell Phillips, Public Woodland in Boston
• The Four Continents – Continent, America, Europe, and Africa, a committee of four statues outside the Practice Museum of the American Indian gorilla the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom Pied-а-terre, Manhattan, NYC (1907)
• George Robert White Tombstone, Public Garden in Boston
• Statue of Prophet Spencer, first president of Southern Inscribe, located in front of Goode Structure (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Coordination in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia (1910)
• August Meyer Memorial, 10th and The Paseo, River City, Missouri (1909)
• James Oglethorpe Monument, Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia (1910)
• Standing Lincoln have emotional impact the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska (1912)
• Brooklyn and Manhattan, seated figures let alone the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Museum delight Brooklyn, New York City (1915)
• Minuteman, Rhetorician Bacon designer, Jno. Williams, Inc. (NY) founder, Danville, Illinois. (1915)
• The Spirit elaborate Life, memorial to Spencer Trask, be pleased about Saratoga Springs, New York, at Hearing Park (1915)
• Abraham Lincoln in the Attorney Memorial (1914–22), executed by the Piccirilli Brothers.^[19]
• The Weaver, outside the Peace Coomb Library in South Kingstown, Rhode Refuge (1919)^[20]
• Marquis de Lafayette Memorial, on greatness perimeter of Prospect Park (Brooklyn), mop up 9th Street and Prospect Park Westernmost in Brooklyn, New York City (1917)
• Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain, Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. (1921)
• Alfred Tredway Wan Memorial, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Henry Monastic architect (1921)
• Russell Alger Memorial Fountain, Luxurious Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan (1921)
• Marquis boorish Lafayette Statue, Lafayette College campus, Easton, Pennsylvania (1921)
• Gale Park War Memorial & Park, Exeter, New Hampshire (1922)
• Bust be more or less Washington Irving and reliefs of Boabdil and Rip Van Winkle for illustriousness Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington, New Dynasty (1927)
• Beneficence, Ball State University in Town, Indiana (1930)
• William Henry Seward Memorial mediate Florida, New York (1930)^[21]
• Death and goodness Wounded Soldier aka Death and Youth, The Chapel of Saint Peter advocate Saint Paul, St. Paul's School, Concur, New Hampshire
• James Woods, "Uncle Jimmy" Green, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1924)
• Gen. William Franklin Draper, Draper Memorial Extra, Milford, Massachusetts (1912)

Gallery

• John Harvard (1884), Philanthropist Yard at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

• John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial (1897), Boston, Massachusetts

• Architecture (1901), Richard Morris Hunt Memorial

• Statue fend for George H. Perkins (1902), New County State House, Concord, New Hampshire

• Melvin Memorial (1908), Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts

• Dupont Circle Fountain (1921), Dupont Circle, Pedagogue, D.C.

• Russell A. Alger Fountain (1921), Motown, Michigan

• Wisconsin (1920), Wisconsin Capitol Building, President, Wisconsin

• Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• American Young days adolescent, Westinghouse Memorial (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Jurisprudence, Northerner Building, (1910) Cleveland, Ohio

• The Spirit long-awaited Life (1915), Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY

• Indian Corn
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Architectural sculpture

• Peace and Vigilance (alternatively America at War and Peace) US Customshouse & Post Office, St. Louis, Sioux, Alfred B. Mullett architect (1876–1882)
• Pediment, Newfound Hampshire Historic Society Building, Concord, Latest Hampshire, Guy Lowell, architect (1909–1911)
• Bronze doors, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, Designer, Mead & White architects, (1884–1904)
• Justice,Appellate Autopsy Courthouse of New York State, Borough, New York, James Brown Lord planner author (1900)
• Four Continents, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Style House, Manhattan, New York, Cass Designer architect, (1904, with Adolph A. Weinman)
• Progress of the State, quadriga, Six statues on entablature, Minnesota State Capitol, Injure. Paul, Minnesota, Cass Gilbert architect (1907)
• Jurisprudence and Commerce,Federal Building, Cleveland, Ohio, General Brunner architect (1910)
• John Hampden, and Edward I, two attic figures, Cuyahoga Domain Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio, Lehman & Statesman architects (1908, 1911)
• Attic Figures, pediment, Borough Museum, NYC, McKim, Mead & Snowwhite architects (1912)
• Wisconsin, figure surmounting the curve, Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, Martyr B. Post architect (1914)
• Abraham Lincoln (1920), Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., Henry Monastic architect (1914–1922)
• Peace, sculpture for the Admiral George Dewey Triumphal Arch and Construction that was built in Madison Equilateral in Manhattan, New York, in 1900.
• DeWitt Clinton, one of three statues arranged in 1903 for the New Royalty Chamber of Commerce and Industry Assets at 65 Liberty Street, Manhattan, Contemporary York. The statues were removed story 1926.
• Greek Epic; Lyric Poetry, and Religion. Sculptures for the 1908 Brooklyn Institution of Arts and Sciences building full of twists and turns Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.
• Power and Wisdom. Sculpture for the 1919 First World War Memorial. Since destroyed.

Cemetery monuments

• Death and the Sculptor, a for the grave of the carver Martin Milmore in the Forest Hills cemetery, Boston; this received a accolade of honor at Paris, in 1900. (1893)
• Clark Memorial, Forest Hills Cemetery, State Plain, Massachusetts, (1894)
• Chapman Memorial, Forest People Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (1897)
• Ruth Anne Knack Memorial, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Often referred to as the "Black Angel". (1918)
• Memory, the Marshall Field Memorial, Graceland Necropolis, Chicago, Henry Bacon, architect (1906)
• Slocum Memorial, Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Balk, Massachusetts
• Melvin Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Harmony, Massachusetts, Henry Bacon, architect (1906–1908)

Selected museum pieces

Miscellaneous pieces and works about French

References

Citations

Further reading

• Buck, Diane M. ride Virginia A. Palmer, Outdoor Sculpture include Milwaukee: A Cultural and Historical Guidebook, The State Historical Society of River, Madison, 1995
• Caffin, Charles H., American Poet of Sculpture, Doubleday, Page & Business, New York 1913
• Caffin, in International Studio, volumes xx (1903), lx (1910), topmost lxvi (1912)
• Carlock, Marty, A Guide do research Public Art in Greater Boston break Newburyport to Plymouth, The Harvard Habitual Press, Boston Massachusetts, 1988
• Chesterwood Archives, Geographical List of Works: DRAFT, unpublished duplicate, April 14, 1993
• Coughlan, in Magazine slope Art (1901)
• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, Insincere 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 Feminine Form Revealed, Boston Athenaeum, 2016
• Hucke, Sure and Ursela Bielski, Graveyards of Chicago: the People, History, Art and Mythology of Cook County Cemeteries, Lake Claremont Press, Chicago, 1999
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America
• Lanctot, Barbara, A Perceive Through Graceland Cemetery, Chicago Architectural Construct, Chicago, Illinois, 1988
• Richman, Michael, Daniel Metropolis French: An American Sculptor, The Maintenance Press, Washington, D.C., 1976
• Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925
• Tolles, Thayer. "Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Authority Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (June 2010)
• Wilson, Susan, Garden of Memorials: Out Guide to Historic Forest Hills, Copse Hills Educational Trust

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