Daniel Chester French Archives - Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/tag/daniel-chester-french/ Sensitive to Art & its Discontents Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:52:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/cropped-Hyperallergic-favicon-100x100.png Daniel Chester French Archives - Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/tag/daniel-chester-french/ 32 32 118955609 Gilded Age Statues Return to the Manhattan Bridge, Now with Kinetic Illumination https://hyperallergic.com/354825/brian-tolle-manhattan-bridge-sculptures/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 02:13:19 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=354825 Brian Tolle's new public sculpture features two long-lost guardians of the Manhattan Bridge, now illuminating its Brooklyn entrance.]]>

Brian Tolle's new public sculpture features two long-lost guardians of the Manhattan Bridge, now illuminating its Brooklyn entrance.

]]> 354825 The Life of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Nude Models https://hyperallergic.com/292956/the-life-of-one-of-the-20th-centurys-most-influential-nude-models/ https://hyperallergic.com/292956/the-life-of-one-of-the-20th-centurys-most-influential-nude-models/#comments Tue, 17 May 2016 03:00:59 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=292956 "That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed. ]]>

"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.

]]> https://hyperallergic.com/292956/the-life-of-one-of-the-20th-centurys-most-influential-nude-models/feed/ 8 292956 The Unsung Female Muses of New York’s Public Sculpture https://hyperallergic.com/274340/the-unsung-female-muses-of-new-yorks-public-sculpture/ https://hyperallergic.com/274340/the-unsung-female-muses-of-new-yorks-public-sculpture/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:39:07 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=274340 New York City is seriously lacking in sculptures of historic women, with just five among the hundreds of bronzes and granite monuments in the five boroughs. Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women embodied in these statues, even if their names are often lost.]]>

New York City is seriously lacking in sculptures of historic women, with just five among the hundreds of bronzes and granite monuments in the five boroughs. Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women embodied in these statues, even if their names are often lost.

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