biografía de Margaret French CRESSON (1889-1973)

Lugar de nacimiento: Concord, MA

Lugar de defunción: Stockbridge, MA

Direcciones: Wash., DC, 1924-32; Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

Profesión: Sculptor, writer, lecturer, painter

Estudios: her father, Daniel Chester French; A. St.Leger Eberle; Geo. Demetrios

Exposiciones: NSS; NAWPS; NAD, 1921, 1924, 1926, 1927 (Shaw prize), 1929, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944; PAFA, 1922, 1924, 1926-29, 1937, 1938, 1940-42; Concord AA, 1923; CGA, 1924 (solo); Soc. Wash. Artists, 1926-31, (bronze medal, 1929); Phila. Artists All., 1927, 1928; Wash. Arts Club (solo) 1928; AIC, 1928, 1929, 1936, 1940; Stockbridge Art Exhib., 1929 (prize); Paris Salon, 1938; WFNY, 1939; Albany Inst., 1938-41; Dublin Hill Art Exhib., 1939 (medal), 1944 (medal); WMAA, 1940; Carnegie Inst., 1941; Allied Artists Am., 1941-44; Arch. Lg., NY, 1941, 43, 44; AAPL, 1959 (gold medal); Chesterwood, 1968-on.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1942; NA, 1959; NSS (secretary, 1940-42); Arch. Lg. (vice-pres., 1944-46); Nat. Trust Hist. Preservation; Grand Central Art Gal.; Audubon Artists; Allied Artists Am.; Concord AA; NAWPS; Soc. Wash. Artists (exec. committee, 1929-30); AAPL; Wash. AC

Obra: Bobst Lib., NYU; NAD; Monroe Mus., Fredericksburg, VA; Rockefeller Inst.; Mass. State Normal Sch.; Prince Mem., Harvard; Berkshire Mus., Pittsfield, MA; Boston Medical Lib.; Chesterwood; CGA; Baker Lib., Dartmouth College; NH Hist. Soc.; YWCA, Wash., DC; various cemeteries

Comentarios: Contributor of articles on art and war memorials, New York Times. Preferred media: bronze. Positions: founder, Chesterwood Studio Mus. Publications: author, Journey into Fame & Laurel Hill; contributor, New York Times, Am. Artist, Am. Heritage & others.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Margaret French Cresson, NA" in The Pedestal (Chesterwood, Vol. 7, No. 1, n.d.); McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.