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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ON DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH ______________________________________________________________________________________ Adams, Adeline. Daniel Chester French: Sculptor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932. Bone, James. The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous and Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel. New York: Regan Arts, 2016. Burke, Margaret R., Donna Hassler, and Dana Pilson. From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial: The Timeless Sculpture of Daniel Chester French, exhibition catalogue, Concord Museum, Concord, MA, 2013. Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1968; reprint ed., 1984. Cresson, Margaret French. Journey into Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947. Dearinger, David B. Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed, exhibition catalogue, Boston Athenaeum, 2016. Emmet, Alan. So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 1996. French, Mary Adams. Memories of a Sculptor’s Wife. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928. Gillette, Jane Brown. Chesterwood. Washington, D.C.: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1997. Goldstein, Ernest. The Statue Abraham Lincoln: A Masterpiece by Daniel Chester French. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Co., 1997. Jackson, Richard S., Jr., and Gilder, Cornelia Brooke. Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930. New York: Acanthus Press, 2002. Pilson, Dana. “A Heritage of Beauty: From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial, The Sculpture of Daniel Chester French.” Antiques and Fine Art Magazine XII (Autumn/Winter 2013): 162–67. Richman, Michael T. Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor. Postscript by Paul W. Ivory. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1976; reprint ed., 1983. Thomas, Christopher A. The Lincoln Memorial & American Life. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Tolles, Thayer. “The Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site and Chesterwood.” American Art 19 (Spring 2005): 11–16. ____ “’One of the greatest interests of his life,’ Daniel Chester French and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Fine Art Connoisseur (May/June 2016): 56–61. .

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