Truth by Daniel Chester French
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Truth

Daniel Chester French · 1900

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. St. Paul Institute of Arts and Science, Minn., by 1968; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, 1969; Private collection, St. Paul, Minn., 1976; Hirschl and Adler, New York City, 1982; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York City, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810–1940, 1982, cat. 25.

Literature

Published references

  • “The New Capitol in St. Paul,” Architectural Record 10, 3 (Jan. 1901), 280–88 (ill.).
  • “The New Minnesota State Capitol at St. Paul,” Western Architect 4 (Oct. 1905), 1–15 (ill.).
  • Julie C. Gauthier, The Minnesota Capital Official Guide and History (St. Paul, 1908), 11 (ill.).
  • Naftalin Hillerest, The Civic Work in Sculpture of Daniel Chester French as Connected with Public Buildings (Beloit, Wis., 1912).
  • Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924).
  • Adeline Adams, Daniel Chester French: Sculptor (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932), 50.
  • Margaret French Cresson, David Chester French (1947), 62.
  • Margaret French Cresson, The Life of Daniel Chester French: Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press, 1947), 307.
  • Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968).
  • Albert Hoffmeyer, “The Minnesota State Capitol,” Northwest Architect 33 (May/June 1969), 50–51.
  • Morgan William Towner, The Politics of Business in the Career of an American Architect: Cass Gilbert, 1878–1905 (Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International, 1972).
  • Neil B. Thompson, Minnesota’s State Capitol: The Art and Politics of a Public Building (Minnesota Historical Society, 1974), 37–38 (ill.).

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