Daniel Chester Analysis

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DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester was born in 1850, in Exeter, New Hampshire. He died at the of 81, in 1931. Daniel was an exceptional sculptor, and is very well known from many of his work pieces, like; the statues of Abraham Lincoln, Alma Mater, Marquis de Lafayette and many other statues. With the amount of detail that has been carved into his pieces, you will appreciate and enjoy, because it would be very hard to dislike them. When you see the amount of detail that goes into these sculptures, you can tell the Daniel Chester was very dedicated man. Daniel Chester French Came under the influence of the skilled circle of Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Daniel had the benefit of learning…show more content…
And once his career started he travelled around for ideas, At the age of 38 he married his cousin Marry French and had a baby girl name Margaret French Cresson a year later, it wasn’t long before Margaret followed in her father’s footsteps and became a sculpture too. She sculptured only marble busts and portrait heads. Daniel had created a lot of statues using a variety of materials; clay, plasters, marble and bronze. When Daniel finished his creations they would always be significant, to him, America or the world. Alma Mater is a bronze sculpture. It is the subject of many Columbia legends. Also including that the first student in every new class to find the hidden owl on the statue will be the class valedictorian Daniel Chester designed and built the beautiful sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in 1920, which is placed in The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., USA. The giant statue of Abraham of 2 that Daniel Chester Created was made of twenty blocks of Georgia Marble, and was carved in the Bronx Studio of the Piccirilli Brothers, and was assembled in the memorial in Washington. This statue is very well known and cherished, since Abraham saved America. The Concord Minute Man is very well known to all Americans. This sculpture is now an American Icon. Marquis de Lafayette This is on 9th Street and Park West, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

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