suggestions for further reading

Adams, Adeline.  Daniel Chester French: Sculptor.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.

Bone, James. The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous and Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel. New York: Regan Arts, 2016.

Burke, Margaret R., Donna Hassler, and Dana Pilson. From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial: The Timeless Sculpture of Daniel Chester French, exhibition catalogue, Concord Museum, Concord, MA, 2013.

Craven, Wayne.  Sculpture in America.  New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1968; reprint ed., 1984.

Cresson, Margaret French.  Journey into Fame: The Life of Daniel Chester French. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.

Dearinger, David B.  Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed, exhibition catalogue,     Boston Athenaeum, 2016.

Emmet, Alan.  So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens.  Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 1996.

French, Mary Adams.  Memories of a Sculptor’s Wife.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928.

Gillette, Jane Brown.  Chesterwood.  Washington, D.C.: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1997.

Goldstein, Ernest.  The Statue Abraham Lincoln: A Masterpiece by Daniel Chester French.  Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Co., 1997.

Holzer, Harold. Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French. Hudson, Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.

Jackson, Richard S., Jr., and Gilder, Cornelia Brooke.  Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930.  New York: Acanthus Press, 2002.

Pilson, Dana. “A Heritage of Beauty: From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial, The Sculpture of Daniel Chester French.” Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, XII (Autumn/Winter 2013): 162–67.

Richman, Michael T.  Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor.  Postscript by Paul W. Ivory.  New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1976; reprint ed., 1983.

Thomas, Christopher A.  The Lincoln Memorial & American Life.  Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Tolles, Thayer. “The Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site and Chesterwood.” American Art 19 (Spring 2005): 11–16.

____    “’One of the greatest interests of his life,’ Daniel Chester French and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Fine Art Connoisseur (May/June 2016): 56–61.