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‘Look for Beauty, Not Ugliness’: Daniel Chester French and American Sculpture
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‘Look for Beauty, Not Ugliness’: Daniel Chester French and American Sculpture

By Timothy Sandefur

Mar 28, 2019
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Daniel Chester French is certainly among the greatest of American sculptors. Best remembered for the immense marble statue inside the Lincoln Memorial, French produced scores of monuments and portraits across the United States in a career that spanned more than half a century. From his first success, the Minute Man in his home town of Concord, Massachus…

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