Boston Athenaeum to Receive a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant to Support Historic Daniel Chester French Exhibit

BOSTON, May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make a  $20,000 award to the Boston Athenaeum to support the "Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor & the Ideal" exhibition in October 2016 at the historic Beacon Hill building at 10 1/2 Beacon Street.  

"For nearly half a century, from the late 1870s to the late 1920s, Daniel Chester French was this country's foremost sculptor of public monuments, and he remains familiar today through his most famous works including The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The Boston Athenaeum is honored and proud to be collaborating on this project with the Chesterwood National Historic Site, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, from which collection the objects for the exhibition have been carefully selected," said David B. Dearinger, Ph.D. Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings & Sculpture & Director of Exhibitions.

Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round. NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, "The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from the Boston Athenaeum represents an investment in both local communities and our nation's creative vitality."

To join the Twitter conversation about this announcement, please use #NEASpring2015. For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to arts.gov.

SOURCE The Boston Athenaeum

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