Enjoy This Selection from the Museum's Peter A. Juley and Son Collection

This portrait of sculptor Daniel Chester French was taken by the Juley Studio.

Fame came early in French's career with the success of his sculpture The Minute Man (1875), placed at the famous bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. He quickly moved to the forefront of American sculpture, creating allegorical figures in the Neoclassical style. He also created the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. , dedicated in 1922.

Source: Joan Stahl. American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995).

Pictured top: Photograph of Daniel Chester French, 1850–1931. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection

Pictured bottom: Daniel Chester French, (1850–1931), Concord Minute Man of 1775,1889, cast 1917, bronze, 32 1/4 x 17 1/8 x 18 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.