He adorned a New York customs house designed by Cass Gilbert with figures of a throne of skulls and a woman in Hindu dress, the figure of Columbia stepping on Quetzlcoatl, and a sleeping African in his series Four Continents, and he also did bronze doors for the Boston Public Library and an equestrian statue of Grant.
The marble and granite base of one of this man's sculptures was supplied by Charles Follen McKim, who convinced Columbia University to commission his figure of a woman with a laurel wreath reading the Bible, Alma Mater. He adorned a New York customs house designed by Cass Gilbert with figures of a throne of skulls and a woman in Hindu dress, the figure of Columbia stepping on Quetzlcoatl, and a sleeping African in his series Four Continents, and he also did bronze doors for the Boston Public Library and an equestrian statue of Grant. For 10 points, name this sculptor who was commissioned to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Concord with The Minute Man.
The marble and granite base of one of this man's sculptures was supplied by Charles Follen McKim, who convinced Columbia University to commission his figure of a woman with a laurel wreath reading the Bible, Alma Mater.
Daniel Chester {French}