Lot 138 | PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES R. WOOD FOUNDATION u - DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH 1850-1931 THE MINUTE MAN
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titled The Concord Minute Man of 1775 and inscribed D.C. French Sc. with the Jno. Williams Founders New York foundry mark
bronze, reddish brown patina
PROVENANCE
The Medallic Art Collection of American Bronzes (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, September 29, 1977, lot 2)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
EXHIBITED
New York, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, The Medallic Art Collection of Bronzes, August-September 1976, no. 28
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903, pp. 312-15
Adeline Adams, Daniel Chester French: Sculptor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1932, pp. 15-16
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 394
Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 4, 39-47, illustration of another example fig. 11, p. 45
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