Concord+Minute+Man+of+1775

Date: 1889, cast 1917
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1991/1991.193_1a.jpg?itok=GiP6RJil width="276" height="332" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/concord-minute-man-of-1775-32650"]] || Title: **Concord Minute Man of 1775**

Artist: **Daniel Chester French** Born: Exeter, New Hampshire 1850 Died: Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1931

Medium: bronze Gorham Manufacturing Company (Founder) Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 17 1/8 x 18 3/8 in. (81.9 x 43.5 x 46.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1991.193 || A youthful farmer turns from his plow and takes up his musket, resolutely stepping into action. A critic noted in 1886 that the figure embodies those “hearty New England virtues which have in large measure made all America what it is now.” This sculpture is a remodeled version of the original 1874 life-size statue erected in Concord, Massachusetts, as a monument to those who fell during the first battle of the Revolutionary War, a century earlier.
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