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==Gallery== <gallery class="center" style="text-align:center;" widths="162" heights="175"> File:John Harvard statue.jpg|''[[John Harvard (statue)|John Harvard]]'' (1884), [[Harvard Yard]] at [[Harvard University]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] File:Memory, (front) by Daniel Chester French.png|[[Memory (French)|Memory]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art - Gallery Images|Metropolitan Museum of Art]] File:2004-08-08 1580x2800 chicago republic.jpg|[[Statue of the Republic|Statue of ''The Republic'']], (1893, reduced vers. 1918), [[Chicago]] File:Oreillymemorial.jpg|[[John Boyle O'Reilly]] Memorial (1897), [[Boston, Massachusetts]] File:Central Park NYC - Richard Morris Hunt Memorial by Daniel Chester French - IMG 5761.JPG|''Architecture'' (1901), [[Richard Morris Hunt Memorial]] File:Commodore George Hamilton Perkins crop.jpg|[[Statue of George H. Perkins]] (1902), [[New Hampshire State House]], [[Concord, New Hampshire]] File:Civil War Monument to Melvin Brothers, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA - March 2016.JPG|''Melvin Memorial'' (1908), [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord|Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]], [[Concord, Massachusetts]] File:Fountain at Dupont Circle.JPG|[[Dupont Circle Fountain]] (1921), Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. File:RussellAlgersfoundGCircParkdetroit.jpg|[[Russell A. Alger]] Fountain (1921), [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] File:Lady Wisconsin.jpg|''[[Wisconsin (statue)|Wisconsin]]'' (1920), [[Wisconsin Capitol Building]], [[Madison, Wisconsin]] File:Westinghouse Plaque Schenley Park.JPG|''Westinghouse Memorial'' (1930), [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. File:George Westinghouse Memorial2.jpg|''American Youth, Westinghouse Memorial'' (1930), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania File:Jurisprudence by DC French.jpg|''Jurisprudence'', Federal Building, (1910) [[Cleveland, Ohio]] File:P1058695a.jpg|''The Spirit of Life'' (1915), Congress Park, [[Saratoga Springs]], NY File:EB1911 Plate VI. v24, pg.507, Fig 2.jpg|''Indian Corn''<br />(Bull by [[Edward Clark Potter]]) </gallery> ===Architectural sculpture=== [[File:Death and the sculptor.jpg|thumb|''[[Death and the Sculptor]]'' (1893) in [[Boston]]]] [[File:Thomas and Alice, Gallaudet University.jpg|thumb|French's statue of [[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]] and [[Alice Cogswell]] (1889) at [[Gallaudet University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]] [[File:2010 Appellate courthouse Daniel Chester French Justice.jpg|thumb|''Justice'' (1900) adorns the pediment of the [[Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State]] in [[Manhattan]].]] [[File:Law PnP French Philly.JPG|thumb|''Law, Prosperity, and Power'' (1880β1884) in West Fairmount Park in [[Philadelphia]]<ref name=Lpnp>([http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!15620~!0 ''Law, Prosperity, and Power'', SIRIS])</ref>]] *''Peace and Vigilance'' (alternatively ''America at War and Peace'') [[United States Customhouse and Post Office (St. Louis, Missouri)|US Customhouse & Post Office]], St. Louis, Missouri, [[Alfred B. Mullett]] architect (1876β1882) *Pediment, New Hampshire Historic Society Building, [[Concord, New Hampshire]], [[Guy Lowell]], architect (1909β1911) *Bronze doors, Boston Public Library, [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], [[McKim, Mead & White]] architects, (1884β1904) *''Justice,'' [[Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State]], Manhattan, New York, [[James Brown Lord]] architect (1900) *''[[Four Continents (French)|Four Continents]]'', [[Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House]], Manhattan, New York, [[Cass Gilbert]] architect, (1904, with [[Adolph A. Weinman]]) *''[[Progress of the State]]'', quadriga, Six statues on entablature, [[Minnesota State Capitol]], St. Paul, Minnesota, [[Cass Gilbert]] architect (1907) *''Jurisprudence'' and ''Commerce,'' [[Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse|Federal Building]], Cleveland, Ohio, [[Arnold Brunner]] architect (1910) *''John Hampden,'' and ''Edward I'', two attic figures, [[Cuyahoga County Courthouse]], Cleveland, Ohio, Lehman & Schmidt architects (1908, 1911) *Attic Figures, pediment, [[Brooklyn Museum]], NYC, [[McKim, Mead & White]] architects (1912) *''[[Wisconsin (statue)|Wisconsin]]'', figure surmounting the dome, [[Wisconsin State Capitol]], [[Madison, Wisconsin]], [[George B. Post]] architect (1914) *''[[Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)|Abraham Lincoln]]'' (1920), [[Lincoln Memorial]], Washington, D.C., [[Henry Bacon]] architect (1914β1922) *''Peace,'' sculpture for the Admiral [[George Dewey]] Triumphal Arch and Colonnade that was built in [[Madison Square]] in Manhattan, New York, in 1900. *''DeWitt Clinton'', one of three statues prepared in 1903 for the [[Chamber of Commerce Building (Manhattan)|New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building]] at 65 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York. The statues were removed in 1926. *''Greek Epic''; ''Lyric Poetry'', and ''Religion''. Sculptures for the 1908 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences building on Eastern Parkway in [[Brooklyn]], New York. *''Power and Wisdom''. Sculpture for the 1919 First World War Memorial. Since destroyed. ===Cemetery monuments=== [[File:Angel of Peace by Daniel Chester French.jpg|thumb|''Angel of Peace'', French's 1898 monument to [[George Robert White]] at Forest Hills Cemetery in [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]]]] *''[[Death and the Sculptor]]'', a memorial for the grave of the sculptor [[Martin Milmore]] in the Forest Hills cemetery, [[Boston]]; this received a medal of honor at [[Paris]], in 1900. (1893) *''Clark Memorial'', [[Forest Hills Cemetery]], [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]], (1894) *''Chapman Memorial'', [[Forest Home Cemetery]], [[Milwaukee|Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], (1897) *''[[Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial]]'', [[Council Bluffs]], Iowa. Often referred to as the "Black Angel". (1918) *''Memory, the [[Marshall Field]] Memorial'', [[Graceland Cemetery]], [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Henry Bacon]], architect (1906) *''[[Joshua Slocum|Slocum]] Memorial'', [[Forest Hills Cemetery]] in [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]] *''Melvin Memorial'', [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord|Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]], [[Concord, Massachusetts]], [[Henry Bacon]], architect (1906β1908) ===Selected museum pieces=== *''The Angel of Death and the Sculptor'', [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]] *''Mourning Victory'', [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]] *''And the Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fairβ¦'', For French, this was an unusually erotic sculpture depicting the verse from Genesis whereby a fallen angel seduces a mortal woman thus producing the mythical [[Nephilim]], [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]; Washington, D.C., signed and dated 1923. === Miscellaneous pieces and works about French === * ''[[Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor]]'': 2022 documentary film by [[Eduardo Montes-Bradley]] *''The Chicago Incendiary'': edition of a small bisque statuette depicting the cow alleged to have started the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871 *''[[The Minute Man]]'': depicted on a US postage stamp issued in 1925, commemorating the [[Battles of Lexington and Concord]] *''Bust of John Brewster'', who endowed [[Brewster Academy]] in 1887.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society|url = http://www.lwhs.us/wolf-brewsterestablishment.htm|website = www.lwhs.us|access-date = February 9, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170311175946/http://www.lwhs.us/wolf-brewsterestablishment.htm|archive-date = March 11, 2017|url-status = dead}}</ref> <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px"> File:Lexington Concord-5c.jpg|Daniel Chester French's ''[[The Minute Man]]'' depicted on US Postage Stamp, 1925 Issue, 5Β’ Image:Daniel Chester French 1940 Issue-5c.jpg|{{center|''Daniel Chester French''<br />[[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Famous Americans Series of 1940|Issue of 1940]]}} </gallery>
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