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Chesterwood will mark the centennial anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial with the premiere of a documentary about its creator, sculptor...
Mar 20, 20222 min read


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”....
Mar 11, 20222 min read


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…
Feb 27, 20222 min read


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...
Feb 26, 20223 min read


For Immediate Release
Stockbridge, MA – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announces a new documentary film that explores the...
Feb 23, 20225 min read


Alice Goes West
Alice: At Home With Alice Parker has been nominated to the Oficial Selection at the upcoming Bare Bones Music & Documentary Festival....
Feb 23, 20221 min read


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...
Feb 17, 20222 min read


Chesterwood Announces Film
Chesterwood is pleased to announce the development of “Daniel Chester French” a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Eduardo...
Feb 16, 20222 min read


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...
Feb 10, 20221 min read


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...
Feb 9, 20224 min read


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
Feb 5, 20224 min read


Julian Bond (1940-2015)
He would spontaneously write as he and his wife Pam travel around the country, lecturing, visiting friends or just living the way they alway
Feb 4, 20222 min read


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...
Feb 4, 20221 min read


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...
Feb 3, 20223 min read


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...
Jan 30, 20221 min read


Public Art at the Custom’s House
Notes for a documentary film on Daniel Chester French If you ever walk south on Broadway, all the way to the tip of Manhattan, you might...
Jan 9, 20222 min read


All Things Considered
A new documentary film about African - American musicians and their contribution to American music has been completed by a...
Dec 29, 20213 min read


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...
Dec 21, 20216 min read
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