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'''Daniel Chester French''' (1850 – 1931) was an [[American]] [[sculptor]]. He is best known for the sculpture of a seated [[Abraham Lincoln]] which is located in the [[Lincoln Memorial]]. Another works from hundreds of his sculptures are: The Concord Minute Man, in Concord, Massachusetts, The John Harvard Monument, Harvard Yard in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]], The Republic, found at Jackson Park, [[Chicago]], Illinois, Alma Mater, campus of Columbia University in New York City, ''The Clark Memorial, located in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, near [[Boston]], The Angel of Death and the Sculptor, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, etc.'' [http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/dc_french/clark/dcfrench_clark.html]
French was a founding member of the National Sculpture Society.
[[Image:Chester French angel.jpg]]
The Angel of Death and the Sculptor.
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[[Image:Clark Memorial.jpg]]
The Clark Memorial.
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== See also ==
*[[Famous American artists]]
*[[Gallery of American Heroes]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/dc_french/daniel_chester_french.html Daniel Chester French: Sculpture In Situ]
[[Category:Sculptors]]