Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of April 20th
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It is the 110th day of the year, leaving 255 days remaining in 2022.
French told his stories in bronze and stone.
His best known work is the sitting figure of Abraham Lincoln, carved in white Georgia marble, the resides as part of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. He worked with architect Henry Bacon to design the memorial, and the Piccirilli Brothers of New York carved it, with French handling the finishing touches.
For the completed work, which measures 30 feet high, French first created a clay, and then several plaster models. The final statute was unveiled in 1922.
It was not the first statue French designed -- and not even the first he did of Lincoln. That monument -- cast in bronze, and nearly eight feet high on a six-foot base -- stands at the state Capitol Building in Lincoln, Neb.
His first work was the Minute Man statue in Concord, Mass. That work, depicting an American minuteman ready to join the forces in the Revolutionary War, was cast in bronze from 10 cannonballs from the U.S. Civil War. It was completed in 1874.
French also designed the Four Continents, four separate memorials sculpted from marble to depict the continents of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, that sit outside the Alexander Hamilton Customs House in New York City.
French died in 1931 in Stockbridge, Mass.
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