page_title: Daniel Chester French
section_title: Architectural sculpture
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Chester French / Gallery / Architectural sculpture
caption_attribution_description: English: US Postage Stamp, Daniel_Chester_French_1940_Issue-5c
context_page_description: Daniel Chester French, one of the most prolific and acclaimed American sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is best known for his design of the monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
context_section_description: Peace and Vigilance (alternatively America at War and Peace) US Customhouse & Post Office, St. Louis, Missouri, Alfred B. Mullett architect (1876–1882)
  Pediment, New Hampshire Historic Society Building, Concord, New Hampshire, Guy Lowell, architect    (1909–1911)
  Bronze doors, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, McKim, Mead & White architects, (1884–1904)
  Justice, Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State, NYC, James Brown Lord architect (1900)
  Four Continents, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, NYC, Cass Gilbert architect, (1904, with Adolph A. Weinman)
  Progress of the State, quadriga, Six statues on entablature, Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota, Cass Gilbert architect (1907)
  Jurisprudence and Commerce, Federal Building, Cleveland, Ohio, Arnold Brunner architect (1910)
  John Hampden, and Edward I, two attic figures, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio, Lehman & Schmidt architects (1908, 1911)
  Attic Figures, pediment, Brooklyn Museum, NYC, McKim, Mead & White architects (1912)
  Wisconsin, figure surmounting the dome, Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, George B. Post architect (1914)
  Abraham Lincoln (1920), Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, Henry Bacon architect (1914–1922)
  Peace, sculpture for the Admiral George Dewey Triumphal Arch and Colonnade that was built in Madison Square in Manhattan, New York City in 1900.
  DeWitt Clinton; Alexander Hamilton; and John Jay. Three statues prepared in 1902 for the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building at 65 Liberty Street. The building was declared a landmark in 1977.
  Greek Epic; Lyric Poetry, and Religion. Sculptures for the 1908 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences building on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.
  Power and Wisdom. Sculpture for the 1919 First World War Memorial. Since destroyed.
caption: ~ Daniel Chester French ~Issue of 1940
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