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 [...]
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