[ June 17, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Celebrate the opening of the 32nd annual Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood (CSC) exhibition, curated by Bruce Weber, Senior Curator, 19th and Early 20th Century Art at the National Academy Museum, New York, NY, where Daniel Chester French was an Academician of the National Academy from 1900 until his death in 1931. The work of 15 [...]
In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, there stands one of the greatest icons of American art, dedicated one hundred years to the day after the Revolutionary War battle it commemorated. In 1872, a committee of citizens awarded a commission to create a monument commemorating the battle at the North Bridge to promising local sculptor [...]
When Daniel Chester French began his life as a sculptor, the most famous American public monuments were portrait figures and equestrian statues, installed in the rotundas of public buildings and in parks. The Lincoln Memorial, executed at the end of his career, reflects the expansion of the role of both the artist and architect. Both figures had become [...]
Following the Spanish-American War (April-August, 1898), the vast territorial empire that was the United States extended from Cuba to the Philippines. By the early 1900s, approximately three-quarters of all federal revenue came from customs duties, most of it through the bustling port of New York. Sited in lower Manhattan, the scale and splendor of the [...]
“A dry fountain is a pitiful spectacle…”
- Daniel Chester French to the Commission of Fine Arts
In 1882, Congress authorized the creation of a statue honoring Civil War Admiral Samuel du Pont, to be located in a newly-fashionable neighborhood in the District of Columbia, not far from the White House. The du Pont family, however, never [...]
Daniel Chester French: Sculpting an American Vision
On exhibit in the Barn Gallery at Chesterwood is a showcase of important works that evoke the breadth and scope of French’s career, as well as dramatize the scale and proportion of these four core monuments:
The Minute Man, Concord, Massachusetts (1875)
The Continents, United States Custom House, New York (1906)
Samuel [...]
CSC 2010 was guest curated by Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. [ Read More → ]
July 4 – October 31, 2009
Guest Curator & Juror:
Denise Markonish, Curator, MASS MoCA
June Ahrens
Brian Auwarter
Pat Brentano Bramnick
Rick Brown
Gordon Chandler
Ursula Clark
Linda Cross
Dana Filibert
Gene Montez Flores
Susan Flores
Richard Garrison
Tom Gottsleben
Lucy Hodgson
Bob Keating
Elizabeth Knowles
Lin Lisberger
Greg Lock
Iain Machell
Kaete Brittin Shaw
Matthew Weber
Support, in part, was provided by:
The McKenzie Family Foundation * Leslie Belt * Jeannene Booher * Nancy Fitzpatrick / High Meadow Foundation * Robert [...]
Lillian Heller began her devotion to sculpture at the age of sixty. Although she was always artistic, it was not until her retirement that she was able to fully develop her passion for sculpture.
Lillian was born in 1917 in New York City. In 1939, she married Harry Heller. Over the next forty years, they established [...]
Thanks to the generous support of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), online visitors can take simulated virtual exhibits of Chesterwood, learning about both the collections and buildings on display at the site. The online exhibits provide Chesterwood with the opportunity to be “open” throughout the year, share highlights from the collection with visitors around the [...]
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