Winged Victory
1921 · bronze
21 5/8 x 10 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (54.9 x 26.6 x 25.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Daniel Chester French
1850
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Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor whose monumental public works defined the civic sculptural tradition of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His bronze and marble figures, from The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts to the colossal seated Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, combined classical restraint with American historical subject matter. French's practice emphasized idealized figuration and architectural integration, establishing a formal vocabulary for commemorative sculpture that influenced generations of public monuments across the United States.
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