French, Daniel Chester

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Title

French, Daniel Chester

Relation

Cousin to his wife Mary

Cornish Dates

1891 to 1894

Accompanied By

Mary Adams French

Cornish Residence(s)

Barberry House

Birth

20 Apr 1850
Exeter, New Hampshire

Death

7 Oct 1931
Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Spouse

Mary Adams French
Married 17 Jul 1888

Relations

Mary Adams French (wife)

Profession

Sculptor

Location Studied

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Studied Under

John Quincy Adams Ward
Thomas Ball
William Morris Hunt
William Rimmer

Student(s)

Elsie Ward

Affiliations

Trustee of Saint-Gaudens Memorial
Trustee of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Sculpture Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Design
Architectural League

Other Events

Chicago World's Fair

Notes

Designed the 1917 Pulitzer Prize

Sources

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 472-474.

Richman, Michael, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor (Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1983).

Tolles, Thayer, "Daniel Chester French (1850–1931),” in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000).

"Daniel Chester French," Chesterwood.org, accessed 23 August 2020.

Daniel Chester French - Wikipedia

Citation

“French, Daniel Chester,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed September 20, 2024, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/528.