Daniel Chester French
American
Sculptor - AsNotedIn
Sculptor - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
Significant name | Chesterwood | Stockbridge | |||||
Architect | Green Hall, University of Kansas | Lawrence | |||||
Architect | Chesterwood | Stockbridge | |||||
Architect | Gallaudet College Historic District | Washington, DC | |||||
Architect | Washington Irving Memorial | Greenburgh, NY | |||||
Architect | US Court of Appeals-Fifth Circuit | New Orleans | |||||
Architect | US Customhouse | New York City | |||||
Architect | Brooklyn Museum | New York City | |||||
Architect | William Henry Seward Memorial | Florida | |||||
1873/00/00 | Daniel C French receives a commission for the Concord Minuteman statue. His compensation for sculpture, other than the mere expense of construction, is up to the free will of the town. | Sculptor | The Minute Man, Concord | Hubbard-French District | Concord, MA | ||
1874/00/00 | By September, The Minute Man statue is completed by Daniel French and a plaster version of the clay statue is sent to Ames Manufacturing Works in Chicopee, Massachusetts. | Sculptor | The Minute Man, Concord | Hubbard-French District | Concord, MA | ||
1875/04/19 | The "Minute Man" statue by Daniel Chester French is unveiled at the Centennial celebration of the Battle of Concord. The statue is located just west of the Old North Bridge. | Sculptor | The Minute Man, Concord | Old North Bridge | Concord, MA | ||
1876/00/00 | The town of Concord pays Daniel French $1,000 for "The Minute Man". Disappointed. French is disillusioned by the "loss of faith in the righteousness of the people than the actual loss of the money expected." - DCF | Sculptor | The Minute Man, Concord | Old North Bridge | Concord, MA | ||
1879/00/00 | Daniel French designs and builds a studio for himself at 324 Sudbury Road. Mr French will use the studio until 1888. | Architect | Hubbard-French District | Concord, MA | |||
1879/04/00 | In Spring, Daniel C French makes a bust (now in the Concord Free Library) of Ralph Waldo Emerson from sitting's at Emerson's house in Concord. French will make the statue much younger with the aid of daguerreotypes. | Sculptor | Ralph Waldo Emerson House | Concord, MA | |||
1884/00/00 | The Spirit of Life, bronze sculpture winged figure on the covered porch leading to the main entrance | Sculptor | St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | |||
1885/00/00 | Daniel French attends St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge. | Parishioner | St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | |||
1888/00/00 | Studio of Daniel Chester French is built in Greenwich Village | Work | Studio of Daniel Chester French | New York City | |||
1893/00/00 | Daniel French's sculpture, Death and the Sculptor, is dedicated. The bronze sculpture marks the grave of the brothers Joseph, James and Martin Milmore. | Sculptor | Forest Hills Cemetery | Boston | |||
1897/00/00 | James C Melvin of Boston commissions Daniel C French to design a memorial to his three brothers - Asa, John and Samuel Melvin - who died in the Civil War. | Sculptor | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Concord, MA | |||
1901/00/00 | Sculptor | The Indian and the Puritan | Union Trust Company Building | Providence, RI | |||
1903/00/00 | Vanderbilt's portals are installed. Sculptors designed the doors and the surrounding sculpture: Herbert Adams created the north doors, Daniel Chester French (with assistance from Andrew O'Connor) the central doors and Philip Martiny the south doors. | Sculptor | St Bartholomew's Church and Community House | New York City | |||
1909/06/00 | Daniel Chester French receives the commission to produce a Lincoln statue for the Nebraska State Capitol. | Sculptor | Nebraska State Capitol | Lincoln, NE | |||
1910/00/00 | French's "Jurisprudence" (Public Square corner) and "Commerce" (corner of E 3rd St and Superior Ave) sculptures are installed. | Architect | Howard M Metzenbaum US Courthouse | Cleveland | |||
1910/00/00 | In the spring, just before sailing for Italy, Daniel Chester French completes a full-size model, the personification of "Memory", as a monument for the Field Grave at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. | Sculptor | Field Memorial | Marshall Field Grave | Graceland Cemetery | ||
1910/03/00 | In the Spring, Daniel French begins working on a standing statue of Lincoln for the Nebraska State house. He bases the sculpture on Leonard Volk's life mask of Abraham Lincoln made in April 1860 and photographs in the Frederick Meserve collection. | Sculptor | |||||
1910/03/00 | Daniel French exhibits a replica of his "Standing Lincoln" statue for the Nebraska State House in the gallery of the Century Club in New York. | Sculptor | Century Association Building | New York City | |||
1910/10/00 | In the Autumn, Daniel C French begins designing a seated statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson for the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, Massachusetts. | Sculptor | |||||
1912/07/00 | Selected by Susan P Draper, Daniel C French finishes his heroic equestrian statue of Gen William F Draper for Congressional Park in Milford. | Sculptor | Milford | Massachusetts | |||
1914/05/16 | Daniel C French's statue of a seated Ralph Waldo Emerson is unveiled in the Concord Free Public Library in Concord. The marble statue is placed so the poet faces visitors as they enter through the front. | Sculptor | |||||
1918/00/00 | Daniel C French completes "The Black Angel" for the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial in Council Bluffs, Iowa. | Sculptor | Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial | Council Bluffs, IA | |||
1920/00/00 | A kneeling angel holding the baptismal bowl carved by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French resides in the baptistry at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. | Sculptor | Emmanuel Episcopal Church, B'More | Baltimore, MD | |||
1922/00/00 | Built 1914-1922 | Sculptor | Abraham Lincoln Memorial Sculpture | Lincoln Memorial | Washington, DC |
3 Creative Works by Daniel Chester French »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
The Minute Man, Concord | Sculptor | Sculpture | 1874/00/00 |
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The Indian and the Puritan | Sculptor | Sculpture | 1901/00/00 | |
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Sculpture | Sculptor | Sculpture | 1922/00/00 |
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