Editing Daniel Chester French

{{Short description|American sculptor (1850–1931)}}
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[[File:America, Daniel Chester French.jpg|thumb|''America,'' one of the ''[[Four Continents (French)|Four Continents]]'' at the [[Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House]] in New York City]]
'''Daniel Chester French''' (April 20, 1850&nbsp;– October 7, 1931) was an American [[sculpture|sculptor]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include ''[[The Minute Man]]'', an 1874 statue in [[Concord, Massachusetts]], and his [[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)|1920 monumental statue]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]] at the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]

==Early life and education==
French was born on April 20, 1850, in [[Exeter, New Hampshire]], the son of Anne Richardson (1811–1856), daughter of [[William Merchant Richardson]] (1774–1838), chief justice of New Hampshire, and of [[Henry Flagg French]]  (1813–1885), a lawyer, judge, [[United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury|Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary]], and author of a book that described the [[French drain]].<ref name="French, 1859" >{{cite book|last=French  |first=Henry F.|title=Farm drainage: the principles, processes, and effects of draining land with stones, wood, plows, and open ditches, and especially with tiles|url=https://archive.org/details/farmdrainageprin00frenrich  |location=New York   |publisher=Orange Judd & Company|year=1859|ref=French, 1859}}</ref> His siblings were Henriette Van Mater French Hollis (1839–1911), Sarah Flagg French Bartlett (1846–1883), and [[William M.R. French]] (1843–1914). He was the uncle of Senator [[Henry F. Hollis]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=French, Daniel Chester|journal=Men of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries|year=1908|volume= 1|pages= 924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94kmAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA924|last1=Leonard|first1=John W.}}</ref> 

In 1867, French moved with his family to [[Concord, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=French, Daniel Chester|year=1905}}</ref> where he was a neighbor and friend of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], and the [[Alcott family]]. His decision to pursue sculpting was influenced by [[Louisa May Alcott]]'s sister [[Abigail May Alcott]].

French's early education included training in anatomy with [[William Rimmer]] and in drawing with [[William Morris Hunt]]. French spent a year studying at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], and also several years in [[Florence]], Italy, studying in the studio of [[Thomas Ball (artist)|Thomas Ball]].

==Career==
[[File:Daniel Chester French in his New York studio.jpg|thumb|French in his studio with the model for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, {{Circa|1889}}]]
[[Image:HBaconChesterwood.jpg|thumb|[[Chesterwood (Massachusetts)|Chesterwood]] in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]], French's summer home, studio, and gardens, now a [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] site]]
French first earned acclaim for ''[[The Minute Man]]'', commissioned by the town of [[Concord, Massachusetts]], which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the [[Battles of Lexington and Concord]], the first armed conflict of the [[American Revolutionary War]].

French established his own studio, first in [[Washington, D.C.]], which he later moved to [[Boston]] and then 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 works by French include the ''First Division Monument'' and the ''Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain'', both in Washington, D.C., ''[[Statue of John Harvard|John Harvard]]'' on the campus of [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], bronze doors for the [[Boston Public Library]] in [[Boston]], and ''[[Four Continents (French)|Four Continents]]'' at the U.S. Custom House, New York, later renamed the [[Alexander Hamilton US Custom House]]. In addition to the [[Lincoln Memorial]], French collaborated with architect [[Henry Bacon]] on memorials around the country, including the [[Dupont Circle]] fountain in Washington, D.C.

In 1893, French was a founding member of the [[National Sculpture Society]], and he was appointed a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1913.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter F|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterF.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 7, 2011}}</ref> During this time, he served as an instructor at the [[Art Students League of New York]], teaching sculpture there in 1890 and 1898.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)|date=June 2010 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fren/hd_fren.htm|access-date=December 22, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Instagram |author=The Art Students League of NY|user=aslny|postid=CrRiJltMQ_1|date=April 21, 2023 |title=Happy birthday to League artist Daniel Chester French (1850—1931) best known for creating the Lincoln Memorial.|language=English|access-date=December 22, 2023|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRiJltMQ_1/}}</ref> French also became a member of the [[National Academy of Design]] (1901), the [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters|American Academy of Arts and Letters]] (which awarded him the Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1917), the [[Architectural League]], and the [[Accademia di San Luca]], of Rome. He was a trustee of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City, and a co-founder of the [[American Academy in Rome]]. He was a Chevalier of the French [[Legion of Honor]] and was awarded a medal of honor from the [[Paris Exposition of 1900]]; he also was granted honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia universities. He was a founding member of the [[U.S. Commission of Fine Arts]], serving from 1910 to 1915, including as chairman from 1912 to 1915.<ref>Luebke, Thomas E., ed., ''Civic Art:  A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts'' (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2013):  Appendix B, p. 544.</ref> 

In 1917, French and a colleague, [[Henry Augustus Lukeman]], designed the [[Pulitzer Prize]] gold medal presented to laureates. French designed the side of the prize with Benjamin Franklin on it, while Lukeman created the iconic design of the printing press and the wording on the award: "For disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year….".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Homren |first=Wayne |date=April 11, 2004 |title=Pulitzer Secrets Revealed |journal=The E-Sylum |volume= 7 |issue= 15, art. 5 |url=http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v07n15a05.html |access-date=July 1, 2007}}</ref> In collaboration with [[Edward Clark Potter]] he modeled the [[George Washington]] statue, commissioned by a group that called itself "The Association of American Women for the Erection of a Statue of Washington in Paris" and unveiled in the Place d'Iena in Paris, France, in 1900; the [[Ulysses S Grant|General Grant]] statue in [[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]], commissioned by the [[Association for Public Art]] (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association);<ref>{{cite book|last=Bach|first=Penny|title=Public Art in Philadelphia|publisher=Temple University Press| location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1992| isbn = 0-87722-822-1|page=208}}</ref> and the [[equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker]] in Boston.

French was one of many sculptors who frequently employed [[Audrey Munson]] as a model; another frequent sitter was [[Hettie Anderson]]. Together with [[Walter Leighton Clark]] and others, he was also one of the founders of the Berkshire Playhouse,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshireweb.com/culture/index.html|title=Arts & Entertainment In The Berkshires|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628090109/http://www.berkshireweb.com/culture/index.html|archive-date=June 28, 2009}}</ref> which later became the [[Berkshire Theatre Festival]]. French's daughter, Margaret, also occasionally modeled for him, including for some of his rare portrait paintings, and became famous in her own right as a sculptor under the name [[Margaret French Cresson]].
In 1917, [[Harvard University|Harvard's]] citation in conferring an honorary [[Master of Arts]] referred to his statue of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]]{{clarify|date=October 2012}}<ref name="HarvAlumBull_EmersonStatue">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uibPAAAAMAAJ|title=Harvard Alumni Bulletin|date=January 1, 1916|publisher=Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated|via=Google Books}}</ref> when it called him "a sculptor, whose skillful hand, unlike that of the friend whom he portrayed, has not been stopped but spared to adorn our land by the creation of his art".<ref name=Crimson1984>Callan, Richard L. [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1984/4/28/100-dears-of-solitude-pthe-john/ 100 Years of Solitude: John Harvard Finishes His First Century]. ''The Harvard Crimson''. April 28, 1984. Retrieved October 13, 2012</ref><ref name="HarvAlumBullv19">[https://books.google.com/books?id=uibPAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA740&dq=daniel%20chester%20french Harvard Alumni Bulletin v.19]</ref> French also taught; among his pupils was the sculptor [[Edith Howland]].<ref name="HellerHeller2013">{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=December 19, 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}</ref>

==Death==
French died in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]], in 1931 at age 81, and was interred in [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord]].<ref>"[https://newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/dc_french_grave.html#:~:text=The%20grave%20of%20the%20great,from%20his%20poignant%20Melvin%20Memorial. Grave of Daniel Chester French]", ''New England Travel Planner''; accessed 2023.06.29.</ref>

==Legacy==
*[[Chesterwood (Massachusetts)|Chesterwood]], French's summer home and studio – designed by his architect friend and frequent collaborator [[Henry Bacon]] – is now a historic site owned and operated by the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://savingplaces.org/places/chesterwood#.WaW5xFEpAdU|title=Chesterwood – National Trust for Historic Preservation}}</ref>
*In 1940, French was selected as one of five artists to be honored in the 35-stamp "Famous Americans" series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1847usa.com/identify/YearSets/FamousAmericans.htm|title=1847usa.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor]]'' (2022) is a documentary film by [[Eduardo Montes-Bradley]] produced in association with [[Chesterwood (Massachusetts)|Chesterwood]] and the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]].
*[[Chester French]] was an American indie band named for the artist.

==Works==
{{See also|Public sculptures by Daniel Chester French}}

===Public monuments===
[[Image:Lincoln statue.jpg|thumb|''[[Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)|Abraham Lincoln]]'' (1920) at the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
[[Image:Minute Man, Daniel Chester French, Concord MA.jpg|thumb|''[[The Minute Man]]'' (1874) in [[Concord, Massachusetts]]]]
[[File:2014 Columbia University Alma Mater closeup.jpg|thumb|''[[Alma Mater (New York sculpture)|Alma Mater]]'' (1903) at [[Columbia University]] in [[Manhattan]], New York City]]
*''[[The Minute Man]]'' at the [[Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts|Old North Bridge]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]], (1874)
*Bust of Major General [[William Francis Bartlett]] at Memorial Hall at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] (1881)
*''[[Statue of John Harvard]]'' at [[Harvard Yard]] at Harvard University (1884)
*''[[Lewis Cass (French)|Lewis Cass]]'', [[National Statuary Hall]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (1889)
*''[[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]] and [[Alice Cogswell]]'' (1889), [[Gallaudet University]], [[Washington, D.C.]]
*''[[Thomas Starr King]] monument'' [[San Francisco]], California (1891)
*[[Statue of The Republic|Statue of ''The Republic'']], the colossal centerpiece of the [[World's Columbian Exposition]], [[Chicago]], 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago.<ref>[http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/StatueRepublic.html Chicago Landmarks | Statue of The Republic<!-- bot-generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226091834/http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/StatueRepublic.html|date=December 26, 2008}} at www.ci.chi.il.us</ref>
*''[[John Boyle O'Reilly]] Memorial'', intersection of Boylston Street and the Fenway in [[Boston]] (1897)
*''[[Rufus Choate]] memorial'', Old Suffolk County Court House, in Boston, (1898)
*''[[Richard Morris Hunt]] Memorial'', on the perimeter wall of [[Central Park]], at [[Fifth Avenue]] at 70th Street, opposite the [[Frick Collection]] in New York City (1900)
*''[[Statue of George H. Perkins|Commodore George H. Perkins Monument]]'' at the [[New Hampshire State House]], [[Concord, New Hampshire]] (1902)
*''[[Alma Mater (New York sculpture)|Alma Mater]]'' (1903), on the campus of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]]
*[[Statue of Wendell Phillips]], Public Garden in Boston
* ''The Four Continents – Asia, America, Europe, and Africa'', a group of four statues outside the [[National Museum of the American Indian]] at the [[Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House]], Manhattan, NYC (1907)
*[[George Robert White Memorial]], Public Garden in Boston
*[[Statue of Samuel Spencer]], first president of [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]], located in front of Goode Building (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Street in Midtown [[Atlanta]], Georgia (1910)
*''[[August Meyer]] Memorial'', 10th and [[The Paseo (Kansas City, Missouri)|The Paseo]], [[Kansas City, Missouri]] (1909)
* [[James Oglethorpe Monument]], [[Chippewa Square|Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia]] (1910)
*''[[Abraham Lincoln (1912 statue)|Standing Lincoln]]'' at the [[Nebraska State Capitol]], [[Lincoln, Nebraska]] (1912)
*''Brooklyn'' and ''Manhattan'', seated figures from the [[Manhattan Bridge]], [[Brooklyn Museum]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York City (1915)
*Minuteman, [[Henry Bacon]] designer, [[Jno. Williams, Inc.]] (NY) founder, [[Danville, Illinois]]. (1915)
*''[[The Spirit of Life]]'', memorial to [[Spencer Trask]], in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]], at Congress Park (1915)
*''[[Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)|Abraham Lincoln]]'' in the [[Lincoln Memorial]] (1914–22), executed by the [[Piccirilli Brothers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/cultural_diversity/Lincoln_Memorial_National_Memorial.html|title=Lincoln Memorial National Memorial—Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures Explore their Stories in the National Park System: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary}}</ref>
*''The Weaver'', outside the [[Peace Dale, Rhode Island|Peace Dale]] Library in [[South Kingstown, Rhode Island]] (1919)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boston.com/culture/design-new-england/2014/07/15/around_new_engl_22|title = Around New England: The Weaver of Peace Dale}}</ref>
*''[[Marquis de Lafayette]] Memorial'', on the perimeter of [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)]], at 9th Street and Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, New York City (1917)
*''[[Dupont Circle Fountain|Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain]]'', [[Dupont Circle]], Washington D.C. (1921)
*[[Alfred Tredway White]] Memorial, [[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]], [[Henry Bacon]] architect (1921)
*''[[Russell Alger]] Memorial Fountain'', [[Grand Circus Park]], [[Detroit]], Michigan (1921)
*''Marquis de Lafayette'' Statue, [[Lafayette College]] campus, [[Easton, Pennsylvania]] (1921) 
*''Gale Park War Memorial & Park'', [[Exeter, New Hampshire]] (1922)
*Bust of [[Washington Irving]] and reliefs of [[Muhammad XII of Granada|Boabdil]] and [[Rip Van Winkle]] for the [[Washington Irving Memorial]], [[Irvington, New York]] (1927)
*''[[Beneficence (statue)|Beneficence]]'', [[Ball State University]] in [[Muncie, Indiana]] (1930)
*''[[William Henry Seward Memorial]]'' in [[Florida, Orange County, New York|Florida, New York]] (1930)<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070612/NEWS/706120313/-1/COMM0203 | title=Seward's bust gets busted | newspaper=Times Herald-Record | author=Ramsey Al-Rikabi | date=June 12, 2007 | access-date=June 30, 2007 | archive-date=September 27, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234805/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070612/NEWS/706120313/-1/COMM0203 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''Death and the Wounded Soldier'' aka ''Death and Youth'', The Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]], [[Concord, New Hampshire]]
*''James Woods, "Uncle Jimmy" Green'', [[University of Kansas]], [[Lawrence, Kansas]] (1924)
*''[[William Franklin Draper (politician)|Gen. William Franklin Draper]]'', Draper Memorial Park, [[Milford, Massachusetts]] (1912)

==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'' (1880–1884) 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 (1876–1882)
*Pediment, New Hampshire Historic Society Building, [[Concord, New Hampshire]], [[Guy Lowell]], architect    (1909–1911)
*Bronze doors, Boston Public Library, [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], [[McKim, Mead & White]] architects, (1884–1904)
*''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 (1914–1922)
*''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 (1906–1908)

===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 Fair…'', 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>

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File:Lexington Concord-5c.jpg|Daniel Chester French's ''[[The Minute Man]]'' depicted on US Postage Stamp, 1925 Issue, 5¢
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]]}}
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Buck, Diane M. and Virginia A. Palmer, ''Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee: A Cultural and Historical Guidebook'', The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison,  1995
* [[Charles Henry Caffin|Caffin, Charles H.]], ''American Masters of Sculpture'', Doubleday, Page & Company, New York 1913
* Caffin, in ''International Studio'', volumes xx (1903), lx (1910), and lxvi (1912)
* Carlock, Marty, ''A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston from Newburyport to Plymouth'', The Harvard Common Press, Boston Massachusetts,  1988
* Chesterwood Archives, ''Geographical List of Works: DRAFT'', unpublished manuscript, April 14, 1993
* Coughlan, in ''Magazine of Art'' (1901)
* Craven, Wayne, ''Sculpture in America'', Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 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 Female Form Revealed'', Boston Athenaeum, 2016
* Hucke, Matt and Ursela Bielski, ''Graveyards of Chicago: the People, History, Art and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries'',  Lake Claremont Press, Chicago,  1999
* Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, ''Architectural Sculpture in America''
* Lanctot, Barbara, ''A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery'',  Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago,  Illinois,  1988
* Richman, Michael, ''Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor'', The Preservation Press, Washington, D.C., 1976
* Taft, Lorado, ''The History of American Sculpture'', MacMillan Co., New York,  NY 1925
* Tolles, Thayer. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fren/hd_fren.htm "Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)"]. In ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History''. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (June 2010)
* Wilson, Susan, ''Garden of Memorials: A Guide to Historic Forest Hills'', Forest Hills Educational Trust

== External links ==
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{{Wikisource1911Enc|French, Daniel Chester}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Daniel Chester French |sopt=t}}
* [http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/dc_french/daniel_chester_french.html Daniel Chester French: Sculpture In Situ]
* [http://www.chesterwood.org/ Chesterwood Estate and Museum]—Summer home, studio, and garden of sculptor Daniel Chester French
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180810144138/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterF.pdf "F"] (pp.&nbsp;158–182; see p.&nbsp;177) in ''Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2012''
* [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15324coll10/id/1306/rec/181 Daniel Chester French exhibition brochure] from the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
* [https://www.nps.gov/articles/chesterwood-the-workshop-of-an-american-sculptor-teaching-with-historic-places.htm "Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor"]; [https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/100chesterwood.htm "Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor – A Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan"], a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan

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