In 1917, French and a colleague,Henry Augustus Lukeman, designed thePulitzer Prize gold medal presented to laureates. French designed the side of the prize with Benjamin Franklin on it, while Lukeman created the iconic design of the printing press and the wording on the award: "For disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year….".[8] In collaboration withEdward Clark Potter he modeled theGeorge Washington statue, commissioned by a group that called itself "The Association of American Women for the Erection of a Statue of Washington in Paris" and unveiled in the Place d'Iena in Paris, France, in 1900; theGeneral Grant statue inFairmount Park, Philadelphia, commissioned by theAssociation for Public Art (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association);[9] and theequestrian statue of Joseph Hooker in Boston.
French was one of many sculptors who frequently employedAudrey Munson as a model; another frequent sitter wasHettie Anderson. Together withWalter Leighton Clark and others, he was also one of the founders of the Berkshire Playhouse,[10] which later became theBerkshire Theatre Festival. French's daughter, Margaret, also occasionally modeled for him, including for some of his rare portrait paintings, and became famous in her own right as a sculptor under the nameMargaret French Cresson.In 1917,Harvard's citation in conferring an honoraryMaster of Arts referred to his statue ofEmerson[clarification needed][11] when it called him "a sculptor, whose skillful hand, unlike that of the friend whom he portrayed, has not been stopped but spared to adorn our land by the creation of his art".[12][13] French also taught; among his pupils was the sculptorEdith Howland.[14]
Greek Epic;Lyric Poetry, andReligion. Sculptures for the 1908 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences building on Eastern Parkway inBrooklyn, New York.
Power and Wisdom. Sculpture for the 1919 First World War Memorial. Since destroyed.
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 mythicalNephilim,Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., signed and dated 1923.
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