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Daniel Chester French

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WA-00114303

Sculpture

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Smithsonian

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/saam_2000.99
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (10)

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American Red Cross War Council Medal (obverse)

1920 · bronze

Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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American Red Cross War Council Medal (reverse)

1920 · bronze

Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

American Red Cross War Council Medal

1920 · bronze

Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Medal Commemorating the Completion of Catskill Aqueduct

1918 · bronze

Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Abraham Lincoln

1916 · Bronze

H.: 83.8 cm (33 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Abraham Lincoln

1912 · Bronze

95.9 × 31.2 × 25.4 cm (37 3/4 × 12 1/4 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bust of Mary Harris Thompson, MD

1902 · Marble

74.8 × 56.6 × 37.5 cm (29 7/16 × 22 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Truth

1900 · Plaster

147.1 × 53.4 × 40.7 cm (57 7/8 × 21 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dewey medal

1898 · Bronze

Art Institute of Chicago

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

1879 · Plaster

58.5 × 25.4 × 28 cm (23 × 10 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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10 published of 10 catalogued · 8 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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4 entries · 1 sources

American Red Cross War Council Medal (obverse)
1920 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
American Red Cross War Council Medal (reverse)
1920 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Medal Commemorating the Completion of Catskill Aqueduct
1918 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
American Red Cross War Council Medal
1920 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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