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Daniel Chester French Trail Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and Twitter, Facebook, on us Follow www.concordmuseum.org • 978.369.9763 • www.concordmuseum.org www.chesterwood.org • 413.298.3579 • www.chesterwood.org gardens of Daniel Chester French. Chester Daniel of gardens Chesterwood is the country home, studio, and and studio, home, country the is Chesterwood where he lived and worked. and lived he where Located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Stockbridge, in Located French. Photo by Sara Lundberg. Sara by Photo French. about the artist and the town town the and artist the about Minute Man by Daniel Chester Chester Daniel by Man Minute sites in Concord to learn more more learn to Concord in sites in twenty-one states. Visit the the Visit states. twenty-one in on exhibition in public places places public in exhibition on French’s major works remain remain works major French’s to the renowned sculptor. sculptor. renowned the to in collaboration with collaboration in resources in Concord related related Concord in resources in historic Concord, Massachusetts Concord, historic in the various historic sites and and sites historic various the on exhibit at the Concord Museum Museum Concord the at exhibit on helpful gateway for exploring exploring for gateway helpful Concord Museum, provides a a provides Museum, Concord French Trail, created by the the by created Trail, French - March 23, 2014 23, March - 2013 11, October Concord’s Daniel Chester Chester Daniel Concord’s F C D TRAIL H C REN HESTER ANIEL CONCORD’S #1 Concord Museum • 53 Cambridge Turnpike #2 Ralph Waldo Emerson House The Concord Museum is a gateway to 28 Cambridge Turnpike historic Concord’s revolutionary and In 1879, the young sculptor Daniel Chester French literary past. Highlights on view convinced the eminent Concord philosopher Ralph Waldo include the 1775 Revere lantern, the Emerson to sit for him. French wrote of sculpting the bust, original furnishings from Ralph Waldo “I am making it at his house & he sits almost daily. He sits Emerson’s Study, and the largest collection like a philosopher, still & patiently.” The house is open for in the world of objects related to Henry tours through October, Thursday - Sunday. Visitors are permitted to walk the grounds during the day while the Thoreau. House is closed. 978.369.2236 Through March 23, 2014, the Concord Museum exhibits From the Minuteman to the Lincoln #3 Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Memorial: The Timeless Sculpture of Daniel Chester 399 Lexington Road French. Visitors are invited to explore this new exhibition featuring the work of America’s foremost sculptor of public Louisa Alcott wrote her famous novel Little Women in this monuments. Hailed as the “Dean of American Sculpture” house. Her sister May was one of Daniel Chester French’s during his lifetime, Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) first art teachers, giving him his first tools and modeling clay, as well as instruction and advice. In a letter to his established his reputation with the iconic statue of the friend William Brewster in 1868, French writes, “I went to Concord Minute Man; sculpted Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Miss Alcott’s - got about as much clay for modeling as era’s leading voice of intellectual culture; and reached the I should conveniently carry from cellar to carriage...about height of his career with the seated Abraham Lincoln at the 125 lbs.” Open year round by guided tour; for more Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital. Open year round. information visit www.louisamayalcott.org. Photo above: Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Daniel Chester French. Photo by David Bohl. OPEN FOR MORE SITES AND A MAP #4 Concord Art Association • 27 Lexington Road #6 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery • Bedford Street The Concord Art Association has been a home to the The Melvin Memorial (1909) is considered one of French’s visual arts since 1917 when it was founded by American masterpieces. James Melvin commissioned the memorial impressionist painter, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts. In to honor his three brothers who died in the Civil War. 1922, Daniel Chester French was installed as the first Instead of a realistic portrait, French chose to create an president of the board of directors. For more information allegorical representation of grief, “Mourning Victory.” about hours and exhibits, visit www.concordart.org. The Memorial is located on Upland Ave. off the Prichard Gate. French died in 1931 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow #5 Concord Free Public Library on Chestnut Path behind the Melvin Memorial. His simple 129 Main Street gravestone is inscribed, “A Heritage of Beauty.” Visit www.friendsofsleepyhollow.org for more information. Reflecting the ambitious vision of founder William Munroe, The cemetery is open sunrise to sunset. the Concord Free Public Library has since 1873 offered public access to Concord-related art, including work by #7 The North Bridge/Minute Man National Daniel Chester French. An 1883/1884 marble version of Historical Park • Monument Street French’s 1879 bust from life of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a statue of Emerson seated (unveiled in the library lobby Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue, Minute Man, is in 1914) stand out as highlights. Plaster busts by French of adjacent to the North Bridge on the western bank of the Simon Brown and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar and a pair of Concord River. In 1871, the town of Concord asked the owls in plaster also form part of the library’s art collection. 21-year-old Dan French to design a monument to In addition, the William Munroe Special Collections commemorate the first battle of the American Revolution hold rich materials for research on French—manuscript on April 19, 1775. Cast in bronze from melted down correspondence and records, albums containing photo- Civil War cannon, the Minute Man was unveiled at the graphs of French’s work taken by the artist himself, and centennial celebration of April 19, 1875, with President late 19th-century Alfred Hosmer images showing work in Grant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo progress inside French’s Concord studio. See the Library’s Emerson in attendance. Visit www.nps.gov/mima for website, www.concordlibrary.org, for hours. more information. Mourning Victory at the Melvin Memorial by Daniel Chester French at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Photo by Sara Lundberg..
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