Tag: Daniel Chester French

  • Nation & World

    John Harvard gets a facelift

    A team of specialists cleaned and restored the iconic John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard earlier this summer, temporarily returning his golden toe to its original brown hue.

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    Robert Shure restoring John Harvard Statue.
  • Nation & World

    Big statue on campus

    Whether you’re standing at the Harvard Statue in the morning, noon, or evening, the scene is almost always the same: Crowds of five, 10, or 50 converge to take a photo with the statue. For some, the statue is the embodiment of the University. For others a photo with it is just a box to…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    John Harvard ‘speaks’

    For the next week, Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue will be animated by the faces, voices, and gestures of Harvard students as part of “John Harvard Projection,” a video installation created by artist and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Biography of a bronze

    September marked the 375th anniversary of benefactor John Harvard’s death, and the beginning of a course that uses his statue in Harvard Yard to instruct students about the realities of two vanished eras.

    8 minutes