The Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups are two magnificent works of art that adorn the west entrance of the building in Harrisburg,

ON LOCATION: While in Florence, I looked for the villa once inhabited by the American sculptor Hiram Powers and his family.

As part of the research for the film Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor, I adapted concepts from Baudelaire’s...

Chesterwood will mark the centennial anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial with the premiere of a documentary about its creator, sculptor...

Concord, Mass - On location and with hardly any time to update my notes on the production of “Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor”....

It is a fact that were all the dwellers there simultaneously to respond to the resurrection-call, Thoreau would be within easy conversing…

Daniel was not in attendance at the unveiling of The Minuteman. Shortly before the memorable day in which Ralph Waldo Emerson and the...

Stockbridge, MA – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announces a new documentary film that explores the...

Washington was built to be admire and visit as one would a permanent exhibit. It doesn’t have at first glance, the cluster of accumulated...

Chesterwood is pleased to announce the development of “Daniel Chester French” a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Eduardo...

It is exceptional, to say the least, to find statues, busts or otherwise dedicated to female historical figures in America. In fact, as...

During the last several months I had the opportunity to walk on the shoes of Daniel Chester French, the famed sculptor of the Lincoln...

The monument to King George III on Bowling Green downed by a group of New Yorkers following a reading of the newly adopted Declaration of In

I put the question, and others, before Thayer Tolles at the MET. Her reply renewed my enthusiasm for a documentary that now occupies all...

By the time The Minutemen was ready to be unveiled in the presence of Emerson and Ulysses Grant, then sitting president of the United...

I’m finally back in Virginia, editing conversations and b-roll captured in the freezing cold over the last two weeks in New York. At...

By Jeffrey Plank - Daniel Chester French will use selected major works to identify and elucidate the important and very difficult...

The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia was organized in 1935. The founders were scholars and elected officials who shared a wish to m

Meet Brent Leggs; he probably has the best job in the world. He’s the current Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the African...

It was a good day in Richmond with David Dearinger. He did most of the talking about male and female figures in the sculptured work of...