TitleAlicia
Artist
Margaret French Cresson
(American, 1889 - 1973)
Daten.d.
MediumCast stone
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/2 × 17 × 8 1/4 in.
Other (Sculpture): 17 × 17 × 8 1/4 in.
Other (Base): 3 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 6 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 5, 1959
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number152-S
Label TextCresson was the daughter and only child of the noted sculptor and National Academician Daniel Chester French. She frequently wrote and lectured on the life and career of her father, and in 1969 donated Chesterwood, his property in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to be maintained as a public museum.Over the course of her career Cresson followed in the realist tradition of her father and executed marble and bronze busts, portrait heads, bronze reliefs and memorial plaques. Her portraits generally feature friends and family, as well as prominent personages. A painted plaster of Alicia is in the collection of Chesterwood, one of 19 portraits by the artist in this collection.
