Public monuments '' (1903) at
Columbia University in
Manhattan, New York City (1921), Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. •
The Minute Man at the
Old North Bridge in
Concord, Massachusetts, (1874) • Bust of Major General
William Francis Bartlett at Memorial Hall at
Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts (1881) •
Statue of John Harvard at
Harvard Yard at Harvard University (1884) •
Lewis Cass,
National Statuary Hall,
Washington, D.C. (1889) •
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell (1889),
Gallaudet University,
Washington, D.C. •
Thomas Starr King monument San Francisco, California (1891) •
Statue of The Republic, the colossal centerpiece of the
World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago. • ''
John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial'', intersection of Boylston Street and the Fenway in
Boston (1897) •
Rufus Choate memorial, Old Suffolk County Court House, in Boston, (1898) •
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, on the perimeter wall of
Central Park, at
Fifth Avenue at 70th Street, opposite the
Frick Collection in New York City (1900) •
Commodore George H. Perkins Monument at the
New Hampshire State House,
Concord, New Hampshire (1902) •
Alma Mater (1903), on the campus of
Columbia University in
New York City •
Statue of Wendell Phillips, Public Garden in Boston •
The Four Continents – Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, a group of four statues outside the
National Museum of the American Indian at the
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Manhattan, NYC (1907) •
George Robert White Memorial, Public Garden in Boston •
Statue of Samuel Spencer, first president of
Southern Railway, located in front of Goode Building (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Street in Midtown
Atlanta, Georgia (1910) •
August Meyer Memorial, 10th and
The Paseo,
Kansas City, Missouri (1909) •
James Oglethorpe Monument,
Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia (1910) •
Standing Lincoln at the
Nebraska State Capitol,
Lincoln, Nebraska (1912) •
Brooklyn and
Manhattan, seated figures from the
Manhattan Bridge,
Brooklyn Museum in
Brooklyn, New York City (1915) • Minuteman,
Henry Bacon designer,
Jno. Williams, Inc. (NY) founder,
Danville, Illinois. (1915) •
The Spirit of Life, memorial to
Spencer Trask, in
Saratoga Springs, New York, at Congress Park (1915) •
Abraham Lincoln in the
Lincoln Memorial (1914–22), executed by the
Piccirilli Brothers. •
The Weaver, outside the
Peace Dale Library in
South Kingstown, Rhode Island (1919) •
Marquis de Lafayette Memorial, on the perimeter of
Prospect Park (Brooklyn), at 9th Street and Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, New York City (1917) •
Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain,
Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. (1921) •
Alfred Tredway White Memorial,
Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
Henry Bacon architect (1921) •
Russell Alger Memorial Fountain,
Grand Circus Park,
Detroit, Michigan (1921) •
Marquis de Lafayette Statue,
Lafayette College campus,
Easton, Pennsylvania (1921) •
Gale Park War Memorial & Park,
Exeter, New Hampshire (1922) • Bust of
Washington Irving and reliefs of
Boabdil and
Rip Van Winkle for the
Washington Irving Memorial,
Irvington, New York (1927) •
Beneficence,
Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana (1930) •
William Henry Seward Memorial in
Florida, New York (1930) •
Death and the Wounded Soldier aka
Death and Youth, The Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul,
St. Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire •
James Woods, "Uncle Jimmy" Green,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas (1924) •
Gen. William Franklin Draper, Draper Memorial Park,
Milford, Massachusetts (1912)
Architectural sculpture '' (1920) at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C. '' atop Wisconsin State Capitol '' at the
Minnesota State Capitol in
St. Paul •
Peace and Vigilance (alternatively
America at War and Peace)
US Customhouse and 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, Manhattan, New York,
James Brown Lord architect (1900) •
Four Continents,
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Manhattan, New York,
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, D.C.,
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, in 1900. •
DeWitt Clinton, one of three statues prepared in 1903 for the
New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building at 65 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York. The statues were removed in 1926. •
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.
Cemetery monuments '' (1893) in
Boston •
Death and the Sculptor, a memorial for the grave of the sculptor
Martin Milmore in the Forest Hills cemetery,
Boston; this received a medal of honor at
Paris, in 1900. (1893) •
Clark Memorial,
Forest Hills Cemetery,
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, (1894) •
Chapman Memorial,
Forest Home Cemetery,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (1897) •
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial,
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Often referred to as the "Black Angel". (1918) •
Memory, the Marshall Field Memorial,
Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago,
Henry Bacon, architect (1906) •
Slocum Memorial,
Forest Hills Cemetery in
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts •
Melvin Memorial,
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
Concord, Massachusetts,
Henry Bacon, architect (1906–1908)
Selected museum pieces •
The Angel of Death and the Sculptor,
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City •
Mourning Victory,
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City •
And the Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair…, For French, this was an unusually erotic sculpture depicting the verse from Genesis whereby a fallen angel seduces a mortal woman thus producing the mythical
Nephilim,
Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., signed and dated 1923.
Miscellaneous pieces and works about French •
Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor: 2022 documentary film by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley •
The Chicago Incendiary: edition of a small bisque statuette depicting the cow alleged to have started the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871 •
The Minute Man: depicted on a US postage stamp issued in 1925, commemorating the
Battles of Lexington and Concord •
Bust of John Brewster, who endowed
Brewster Academy in 1887. ==Gallery==