Show WHEN 1 WAS TWENTY ONE BY JOSEPH KAYE at 21 daniel chester french was embarking on his career ABOUT this age I 1 went to achl cago with a has relief of el ter which I 1 exhibited it won favor able notice and procured me an cordei for a similar portrait by a chicago lady the first commission I 1 received it was just a few years after that 1 agan work upon my first public statue the uin te man I 1 have always enjoyed my work when I 1 get interested in a subject I 1 lose all track of time and thoroughly enjoy myself I 1 am not like my old friend st gaudens who took things more seriously he actually fought his work studying it from every an gle worrying with it puzzling over it I 1 have never worked that way and I 1 used to feel guilty as though I 1 were too good a time daniel ches ter trench TODA mr french Is one of america s most distinguished tors the creator of the minute man an historical piece of work that Is familiar to every american at the time mr french proposed his plans to the memorial committee in charge of erecting the statue in concord as a revolutionary memorial french was totally unknown as an artist and practically self taught the only thing in ills favor being that he was a native of concord and that all he asked in financial returns was four hundred dollars for expenses his design was accepted and amr french set to work without even the help of a model the artistic ability of the sculptor was first discovered when his step mother found him carving a turnip into a caricature of a frog dressed in clothes ills career was decided upon then E by mcclore newspaper |