Chesterwood’s Orientation Film (7 min.) Created by Eduardo Montes-Bradley / Heritage Film Project @montesbradley

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To round out our celebration of Women’s History Month, we highlight a few of the many female models who posed for Daniel Chester French. He often used more than one model for his works, perhaps preferring one model’s wrist or ankle, anoth
What a ✨ relief ✨ it’s Friday! As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, this Friday we highlight sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman who was French’s only female student and studio assistant. The two artists forged a close
Before we open for our new season in May, these early spring days when the site is closed is the perfect time for needed preservation work! A Monumental project is underway at the Studio to replace the cedar shake roof shingles! But the scaffolding
Chesterwood is deeply saddened by the death of Michael Richman, PhD, (1943-2025) one of the world's leading experts on Daniel Chester French. It was his groundbreaking retrospective exhibition, "An American Sculptor: Daniel Chester French",
What a ✨ relief ✨it’s Friday! These two plaster reliefs (“Knowledge” & “Wisdom”) by Daniel Chester French are part of a larger set that were cast in bronze at a foundry and then installed as doors at the Boston Publ
March is Women’s History Month, so all month long we’ll be celebrating the contributions of amazing women to the life of Chesterwood. Born in 1859 and raised in Washington, DC, Mary Adams French was 28 years old when she married her fir

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Chesterwood:
the GILDED-AGE home, studio and gardens of
America’s foremost PUBLIC MONUMENT SCULPTOR,
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)

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