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Permanent Exhibition in the Barn Gallery

Daniel Chester French:
Sculpting an American Vision

On exhibit in the Barn Gallery is a showcase of important works that evoke the breadth and scope of French's career, as well as dramatize the scale and proportion of these four core monuments:

  • The Minute Man, Concord, Massachusetts 1875
  • The Continents, United States Custom House, New York, 1906
  • Samuel F. Dupont Memorial, the fountain at Dupont Circle, Washington DC, 1921
  • Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 1922

The exhibit explores Daniel Chester French's creative process, his style and the social context for his work.