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DRAFT GEOGRAPHICAL LIST OF SELECTED OUTDOOR AND PERMANENTLY DISPLAYED SELECTED INDOOR SCULPTURES BY
DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH
(version by Marcey Terrien, February 2002, edited by W. Styka, May 29, 2002)
(* denotes works executed at Chesterwood) [[needs more research]
Prefatory Remarks
¨ Although the ultimate aim is to list by location all the works by Daniel Chester French that are in public collections, the present list of works that are outdoors or that are on permanent display indoors does not pretend to be exhaustive; hence the inclusion of the word selected.
¨ The following works have been deliberately omitted: (1) sculptures in the Chesterwood collection whether in bronze, marble, or plaster
(2) outdoor pieces which are small and vulnerable, particularly those in smaller cemeteries
(3) those in museum collections unless they are on indefinite or virtually permanent exhibit
¨ Several outdoor works are no longer in their original locations; their current locations only are noted on the present list. There is always the possibility that more works may have been moved without our knowledge.
¨ The present geographical list is limited to the following information for each entry: state or country, city, title, medium, form, specific location, and inclusive dates. Not included are detailed locations; the clay date; one or more additional concise statements on, for example, size, original location, names of collaborators and architects, significance, subject, architectural context, and cross references; and reference to that which is in the Chesterwood collection that pertains to the entry (e.g., archival photographs, a plaster sketch, a bronze replica, etc.). Such a list will be comprehensive and will equip visitors with basic answers to basic questions. It will be entered on a computer program and will serve the museum as a master list as well as a working list for any future lists, be they alphabetical, chronological, or geographical.
¨ The current list falls short of being a completely user-friendly geographical list. To be truly user friendly, the list needs to follow one of two formats: (1) a format with the specific location of the work placed before the title (i.e., state, town, specific location, and title, or titles at that specific location listed in immediate sequence) or (2) the current general format but with all titles that are in the same locations listed in respective immediate sequence. Either format would enable one to see at a glance what is in the same collection rather than having to jump up and down through the list, as is the case now. The State House in Boston, for example, has a few works by French.
State / City / Title of Work / Date /CALIFORNIA
/ Glendale / THE REPUBLIC, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Court of Freedom / 1895CALIFORNIA / San Francisco / THOMAS STARR KING, bronze statue, Golden Gate Park / 1888-1892
CONNECTICUT
/ Hartford / THOMAS GALLAUDET MEMORIAL, bronze group replica, American School for the Deaf / 1924-1925DC
/ Washington / LEWIS CASS; marble statue, United States Capitol, Statuary Hall / 1885-1889DC
/ Washington / THOMAS GALLAUDET MEMORIAL; bronze group, Gallaudet College, Kendall Green / 1885-1889DC
/ Washington / VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS, marble bust, United States Capitol, Senate Chamber / 1886-1890DC
/ Washington / HERODOTUS, bronze statue, Library of Congress, Rotunda / 1898DC
/ Washington / HISTORY, plaster statue, Library of Congress, Rotunda / 1898DC
/ Washington / FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET AND MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT MEMORIAL, marble fountain reliefs, The Ellipse, Executive Avenue and Ellipse Drive, at northwest junction * / 1912-1913DC
/ Washington / MARGARET STUYVESANT RUTHERFURD WHITE, marble relief, National Cathedral, White Chapel / 1916-1920DC / Washington / HENRY WHITE, marble relief replica, National Cathedral, White Chapel / 1928
DC / Washington / ADMIRAL SAMUEL FRANCIS DUPONT MEMORIAL (SEA, WIND and SKY), marble fountain reliefs, Dupont Circle * / 1917-1921
DC / Washington / ABRAHAM LINCOLN, marble statue, Lincoln Memorial * / 1911-1922
DC / Washington / THE SONS OF GOD SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN THAT THEY WERE FAIR (IMMORTAL LOVE), marble group, Corcoran Gallery of Art * / 1918-1923
DC
/ Washington / FIRST DIVISION MEMORIAL (VICTORY), bronze statue, President’s Park South * / 1921-1924GEORGIA / Atlanta / SAMUEL SPENCER, bronze statue, Peachtree and West Peachtree Streets * / 1909-1910
GEORGIA / Atlanta / JESSE PARKER WILLIAMS MEMORIAL (SPIRIT OF ACHIEVEMENT), marble relief, Westview Cemetery / 1915-1920
GEORGIA / Savannah / GOVERNOR JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE, bronze statue, Chippewa Square / 1907-1910
ILLINOIS / Chicago / THE REPUBLIC; gilded staff statue; World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 / 1891-1893
ILLINOIS / Chicago / INDIAN CORN (WOMAN AND BULL), bronze group, Garfield Park / 1893?
ILLINOIS / Chicago / GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, bronze equestrian replica, Washington Park / 1903-1904
ILLINOIS / Chicago / MARSHALL FIELD MEMORIAL (MEMORY), bronze statue, Graceland Cemetery * / 1908-1912
ILLINOIS / Chicago / THE REPUBLIC, gilded bronze statue, Jackson Park / 1915-1918
ILLINOIS / Chicago / ALICE FREEMAN PALMER PLAQUETTE; bronze relief; University of Chicago, Mitchell Tower / 1909-1910
ILLINOIS / Danville / DANVILLE, ILLINOIS FOUNTAIN, by Paul Manship under supervision of D.C. French, small bronze statue of a Continental soldier / 1913-1915
ILLINOIS / Springfield / Abraham Lincoln (standing), bronze working model, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Lincoln Tomb / 1910-1911
ILLINOIS / Springfield / Abraham Lincoln (seated), bronze working model, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Lincoln Tomb / 1916
INDIANA / Muncie / BALL BROTHERS MEMORIAL (BENEFICENCE); bronze fountain statue; Ball State University / 1929-1937
IOWA / Council Bluffs / RUTH ANNE DODGE MEMORIAL (DREAM ANGEL); bronze fountain statue; Fairview Cemetery / 1916-1920
KANSAS / Lawrence / DEAN JAMES WOODS GREEN; bronze group; University of Kansas / 1922-1924
MARYLAND
/ Annapolis / Commodore George Hamilton Perkins; bronze replica; Naval Academy, Bancroft Hall, Memorial Hall, seaward side, porticoed balcony / 1911MARYLAND / Baltimore / NEWCOMER MEMORIAL; marble baptismal font; Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baptistry / 1902-1904
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GENERAL WILLIAM SCHOULER; stone relief; Jamaica Plain, Morton Street (State 203 Highway), Forest Hills Cemetery / 1873
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / SCIENCE CONTROLLING THE FORCES OF ELECTRICITY AND STEAM; marble group; Dorchester, Franklin Park, Seaver Street, flanking entrance / 1880-1885
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / LABOR SUSTAINING ART AND THE FAMILY; marble group; Dorchester, Franklin Park, Seaver Street, flanking entrance / 1882-1885
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / MASTER ADELBERT THAYER ALDEN; bronze statue; Jamaica Plain, Walk Hill Street, Forest Hills Crematory and Columbarium, at entrance to lower Columbarium / 1891
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / MILMORE MEMORIAL (THE ANGEL OF DEATH STAYING THE HAND OF THE SCULPTOR); bronze relief; Jamaica Plain, Morton Street (State 203 Highway), Forest Hills Cemetery / 1889-1893
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / CLARK MEMORIAL (KNEELING ANGELS); marble reliefs; Jamaica Plain, Morton Street (State 203 Highway), Forest Hills Cemetery / 1894
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY MEMORIAL (ERIN AND HER SONS, PATRIOTISM AND POETRY); bronze group and bust; The Fenway, at head of Boylston Street / 1892-1897
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / RUFUS CHOATE; bronze statue, Suffolk County Court House, Pemberton Square, in central hall / 1896-1898
MASSACHUSETTS
/ Boston / GEORGE ROBERT WHITE MEMORIAL (ANGLE OF PEACE); bronze statue; Jamaica Plain, Morton Street (State 203 Highway), Forest Hills Cemetery / 1898MASSACHUSETTS
/ Boston / BISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS; marble bust; Trinity Church / 1898-1899MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER; bronze equestrian statue; State House grounds * / 1898-1903
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM, MUSIC AND POETRY, TRUTH AND ROMANCE; bronze reliefs; Public Library, entrance doors, Copley Square / 1894-1904
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GENERAL WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT; bronze statue; Memorial Hall, State House / 1903-1904
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GOVERNOR ROGER WOLCOTT; bronze statue and marble reliefs of a soldier and a sailor; State House, third floor, opposite main stairs / 1905-1907
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / FRANCIS PARKMAN MEMORIAL; granite inset relief & bronze plaque; Jamaica Plain, Olmsted Park * / 1897-1907
MASSACHUSETTS
/ Boston / SENATOR GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR; marble bust; State House / 1908MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / SLOCUM MEMORIAL, by E.B. Longman supervised by DCF, Jamaica Plain, Morton Street (State 203 Highway), Forest Hills Cemetery / 1908-1912
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / WENDELL PHILLIPS; statue; on Boylston Street Mall of the Public Garden / 1913-1915
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GEORGE ROBERT WHITE; bronze relief; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy / 1919
MASSACHUSETTS / Boston / GEORGE ROBERT WHITE MEMORIAL (THE SPIRIT OF GIVING) bronze fountain statue; near Beacon and Arlington Streets, Public Garden * / 1922-1924
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; marble bust; Memorial Hall, Harvard University / 1879-1883
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / GENERAL WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT; marble bust; Memorial Hall, Harvard University / 1881-1882
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / JOHN HARVARD; bronze statue; Harvard Yard, Harvard University / 1883-1884
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / COL. CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL; marble bust; Memorial Hall, Harvard University / 1884-1885
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / FRANCIS AMASA WALKER; bronze bust; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (bust in Historical Collections and replica in Alumni Club) / 1897-1898
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL MEMORIAL; bronze bust; in court of Lowell House, Harvard University / 1902-1906
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / Ralph Waldo Emerson (seated); bronze working model; Houghton Library, Harvard University / 1911
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MEMORIAL; bronze bust and marble relief; Longfellow Park, Mt. Auburn Street * / 1912-1914
MASSACHUSETTS / Cambridge / EDWARD MALLINCKRODT TABLET; bronze portrait relief; Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, Chemistry Building, Harvard University / 1928
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / SIMON BROWN; plaster bust; Concord Free Public Library / 1874
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / THE MINUTE MAN; bronze statue; North Bridge, on west bank / 1871-1875
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; plaster bust; Ralph Waldo Emerson House / 1879
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / RALPH WALDO EMERSON (seated); marble statue; Concord Free Public Library / 1911-1914
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; marble bust; Concord Free Public Library / 1879-1883
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; plaster bust; Concord Free Public Library / 1879
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / SHERMAN HOAR; plaster bust; Concord Free Public Library / 1899
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / TWO OWLS; plaster group figurine; Concord Public Library / 1869
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / JAMES ELLIOT CABOT; plaster bust; Ralph Waldo Emerson House / 1879-1880
MASSACHUSETTS
/ Concord / AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT; plaster bust; Orchard House / 1889MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / SARAH FLAGG FRENCH BARTLETT; grave marker; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery / 1883-1884
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / EBENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR; marble bust; Concord Free Public Library / 1886
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / MELVIN MEMORIAL (MOURNING VICTORY); marble relief; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery * / 1906-1909
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / EDWARD JARVIS BARTLETT; grave marker; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery / 1914
MASSACHUSETTS / Concord / MAJOR JOHN BUTTRICK MEMORIAL (supervised by DCF); bronze relief; Liberty Street / 1913-1915
MASSACHUSETTS / Easton / SARAH HILDRETH BUTLER, marble relief; Borderland State Park, Ames Mansion, library / 1878-1879
MASSACHUSETTS / Framingham Center / GEORGE HENRY GORDON; marble bust; Framingham Public Library / 1888
MASSACHUSETTS / Lee / KILBON MEMORIAL; marble drinking fountain; Town Park Village Green / 1897-1899
MASSACHUSETTS
/ Lincoln / DANA DE CORDOVA; marble statue; De Cordova and Dana Museum / 1880-1882MASSACHUSETTS / Milford / GENERAL WILLIAM DRAPER; bronze equestrian statue; General Draper Park, Main Street * / 1910-1912
MASSACHUSETTS / Milton / MILTON WAR MEMORIAL (IN FLANDERS FIELDS); bronze statue; Town green / 1923-1925
MASSACHUSETTS / Pittsfield / GENERAL WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT, bronzed plaster figure, Berkshire Community College, Bartlett Conference Room / 1904
MASSACHUSETTS / Springfield / SAMUEL BOWLES TABLET; bronze portrait relief, [awaiting information on location] / 1909
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / LAUREL HILL ROSTRUM; stone podium, Laurel Hill / 1905
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK MEDAL; large gilt bronze; Stockbridge Library
Association / 1896
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / Working Man Reading (COLONEL JAMES ANDERSON MEMORIAL detail), bronze sketch;
Stockbridge Library Association / 1902
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / Abraham Lincoln (standing); bronze working model; Stockbridge Library Association / 1911
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / Fine Arts (MILLET-BUTT MEMORIAL), plaster relief sketch, Stockbridge Library Association / 1912
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / Military Valor (MILLET-BUTT MEMORIAL), plaster relief sketch, Stockbridge Library
Association / 1912
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / LAFAYETTE MEDAL; bronze, Stockbridge Library Association / 1918
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / KNOWLEDGE; bronze sketch, Stockbridge Library Association / 1919
MASSACHUSETTS / Stockbridge / DANIEL WEBSTER; plaster figural sketch, Stockbridge Library Association / 1931
MASSACHUSETTS / Wellesley / ALICE FREEMAN PALMER MEMORIAL, marble group relief and portrait medallion, Wellesley
College, Chapel / 1908-1909
MASSACHUSETTS / Wellesley / RALPH WALDO EMERSON, plaster bust, Wellesley College, Library / 1879
MASSACHUSETTS / Worcester / GENERAL CHARLES DEVENS, bronze equestrian statue, Court House, at corner * / 1902-1906
MASSACHUSETTS / Worcester / SENATOR GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR; bronze statue, City Hall, near corner * / 1907-1908
MASSACHUSETTS / Worcester / BURNSIDE MEMORIAL (BOY WITH A TURTLE), supervised by D.C. French, bronze fountain statue and granite watering troughs for horses and dogs, the Common, Front and Franklin Streets / 1911-1912
MICHIGAN / Detroit / RUSSELL ALGER MEMORIAL; bronze allegorical fountain statue and portrait medallion,
East Grand Circus Park / 1913-1921
MINNESOTA
/ Minneapolis / GOVERNOR JOHN S. PILLSBURY; bronze statue; University of Minnesota / 1900MINNESOTA / Saint Paul / WISDOM, COURAGE, BOUNTY, TRUTH, INTEGRITY, PRUDENCE (left to right), marble
statues, State Capitol, façade, on entablature / 1896-1901
MINNESOTA / Saint Paul / THE PROGRESS OF THE STATE, gilded sheet copper quadriga and three figures, State Capitol, façade, in front of dome / 1905-1907
MISSOURI / Kansas City / AUGUST ROBERT MEYER MEMORIAL, bronze portrait relief, The Paseo Boulevard and Tenth Street / 1907-1909
MISSOURI / Saint Louis / PEACE AND VIGILANCE; marble group; U.S. Custom House & Post Office, original now inside, reproduction on façade / 1878-1882
MISSOURI / Saint Louis / NAPOLEON; plaster figure; Jefferson National Expansion Memorial / 1903
MISSOURI / Saint Louis / SCULPTURE; marble statue; City Art Museum, outdoors, at entrance / 1913-1915
NEBRASKA / Lincoln / ABRAHAM LINCOLN (standing); bronze statue; State Capitol, west entrance / 1909-1912
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Concord / COMMODORE GEORGE HAMILTON PERKINS MEMORIAL; bronze statue; on the State House grounds and behind the NH Historical Society / 1899-1902
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Concord / AMOS TUCK; bronze reworking of bust; NH Historical Society / 1881-1911
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Concord / MODERN AND ANCIENT HISTORY FLANKING THE SEAL OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY; granite relief, NH Historical Society, above main entrance doorway / 1909-1911
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Concord / ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL MEMORIAL (DEATH AND YOUTH), marble group; St. Paul’s School,
chapel / 1924-1929
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Cornish / First Division Memorial, gilded bronze working model, Cornish Colony Gallery and Museum / 1922
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Exeter / HENRY FLAGG FRENCH; bronze bust; Exeter Public Library, Special Collections and Archive / 1878
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Exeter / RALPH WALDO EMERSON, plaster bust, Exeter Public Library / 1879
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Exeter / SHERMAN HOAR, bronze bust, Phillips Academy, chapel / 1899-1901
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Exeter / EXETER WAR MEMORIAL, bronze group, Gale Park, Front and Linden Streets / 1920-1922
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Franklin / DANIEL WEBSTER MEMORIAL (completed by Margaret French Cresson), bronze bust, in
front of Congregational Christian Church, South Main Street * / 1931-1932
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Hanover / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; bronze bust; Dartmouth College, Baker Memorial Library / 1879
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Hanover / DANIEL WEBSTER (standing); bronze figural sketch, Dartmouth College, Baker Memorial Library / 1931
NEW
HAMPSHIRE / Hanover / DANIEL WEBSTER; plaster bust; Dartmouth College, Baker Memorial Library / 1931
NEW JERSEY / Allamuchy / RUTHERFURD B. STUYVESANT MEMORIAL (ANGEL OF PEACE), marble statue, Tranquility Cemetery / 1912-1914
NEW JERSEY / Princeton / EARL DODGE MEMORIAL (THE PRINCETON STUDENT), Princeton University, Jadwin
Gymnasium, lobby / 1910-1913
NEW YORK / Florida / WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD MEMORIAL; bronze bust; Main Street / 1923-1930
NEW YORK / Irvington-on-Hudson / WASHINGTON IRVING MEMORIAL, bronze bust and reliefs, Broadway/Route 9 and Sunnyside Lane / 1924-1927
NEW YORK / New York City / JOE’S FAREWELL; Parian ware group; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Manhattan / 1872-1873
NEW YORK / New York City / BENJAMIN C. PORTER; bronze bust; Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NY University; Manhattan / 1877
NEW YORK / New York City / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; bronze bust; American Academy of Arts & Letters; Manhattan / 1879
NEW YORK / New York City / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; bronze bust; National Academy of Design; Manhattan / 1879
NEW YORK / New York City / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; bronze bust; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Manhattan / 1879
NEW YORK / New York City / RALPH WALDO EMERSON; plaster bust, Columbia University; Manhattan / 1879
NEW YORK / New York City / FRANKIE (MASTER FRANKLIN Ward); marble statue; Greenwood Cemetery; Brooklyn / 1880-1882
NEW YORK / New York City / REVEREND ARTHUR BROOKS; bronze bust; Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue and 35th Street, Manhattan / 1897-1898
NEW YORK / New York City / UNIVERSITY CLUB SEALS (SEALS OF HARVARD, YALE, PRINCETON, COLUMBIA, BROWN, WILLIAMS, AMHERST AND HAMILTON COLLEGES AND MILITARY AND NAVAL
ACADEMIES); University Club, façade, Manhattan / 1898
NEW YORK