HIRAM POWERS
ON LOCATION: While in Florence, I looked for the villa once inhabited by the American sculptor Hiram Powers and his family.
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HERITAGE FILM PROJECT
by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
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TUESDAY, JAN 24
Join us for an evening with filmmaker Eduardo Montes-Bradley for a conversation about the Piccirilli brothers and their outsize influence on
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BODELAIRE ON SCULPTURE
As part of the research for the film Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor, I adapted concepts from Baudelaire’s...
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BITS & BYTES
Chesterwood will mark the centennial anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial with the premiere of a documentary about its creator, sculptor...
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On the Road
Concord, Mass - On location and with hardly any time to update my notes on the production of “Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor”....
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Mourning Victory
It is a fact that were all the dwellers there simultaneously to respond to the resurrection-call, Thoreau would be within easy conversing…
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The Angel of Death
Daniel was not in attendance at the unveiling of The Minuteman. Shortly before the memorable day in which Ralph Waldo Emerson and the...
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For Immediate Release
Stockbridge, MA – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announces a new documentary film that explores the...
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The Butt–Millet Memorial
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...
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Chesterwood Announces Film
Chesterwood is pleased to announce the development of “Daniel Chester French” a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Eduardo...
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Beyond the Female Form
It is exceptional, to say the least, to find statues, busts or otherwise dedicated to female historical figures in America. In fact, as...
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HFP at The MET
During the last several months I had the opportunity to walk on the shoes of Daniel Chester French, the famed sculptor of the Lincoln...
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The Monumental Cycle of Life
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
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Why Daniel C. French, Why Now?
I put the question, and others, before Thayer Tolles at the MET. Her reply renewed my enthusiasm for a documentary that now occupies all...
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The Bohemians
By the time The Minutemen was ready to be unveiled in the presence of Emerson and Ulysses Grant, then sitting president of the United...
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Sculptor Judith Shea
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...
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Notes on Daniel Chester French
By Jeffrey Plank - Daniel Chester French will use selected major works to identify and elucidate the important and very difficult...
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A Doc for Daniel Chester French
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
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Preserving Historic Places
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...
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On Location in Richmond, Va
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...
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