The Piccirilli brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
USS Maine National Monument, Central Park, NYC, Atillio Piccirilli, sculptor
Washington Square Arch (1895-1918), New York City: architectural ornament and Washington statues
New York Stock Exchange Building (1903), New York City: pedimental sculpture
Brooklyn Museum (1913), Brooklyn, New York City: pedimental sculpture and cornice figures
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
French in 1902
America, one of the Four Continents at The Alexander Hamilton Custom House, Bowling Green, New York City
French in his studio with the model for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, c. 1889, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, French's summer home, studio, and gardens, now a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
