Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts
Designer
Daniel Chester French (sculptor)
James Elliot Cabot (architect)
Material
Bronze (sculpture)
Granite (pedestal)
Height
7 feet (2.1 m)
Opening date
April 19, 1875 (149 years ago) (1875-04-19)
The Minute Man[note 1] is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and was originally intended to be made of stone. The medium was switched to bronze and it was cast from ten Civil War-era cannons appropriated by Congress.
The statue depicts a minuteman stepping away from his plow to join the patriot forces at the Battle of Concord, at the start of the American Revolutionary War. The young man has an overcoat thrown over his plow, and has a musket in his hand. Nineteenth-century art historians noticed that the pose resembles the pose of the Apollo Belvedere. Until the late twentieth century, it was assumed that the pose was transposed from the earlier statue. Based on Daniel Chester French's journals, modern art historians have shown that the Apollo Belvedere was only one of several statues that were used in the research for The Minute Man.
The statue was unveiled in 1875 for the centennial of the Battle of Concord. It received critical acclaim and continues to be praised by commentators. The statue has been a suffragette symbol and a symbol of the United States National Guard and its components, the Army National Guard, and the Air National Guard, and depicted on coins such as the 1925 Lexington–Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar and the 2000 Massachusetts state quarter.
Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).
TheMinuteMan is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in MinuteMan National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871...
for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name. Minutemen provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that enabled the colonies to respond immediately...
"Sixty MinuteMan" is an R&B record released on Federal Records in 1951 by the Dominoes. It was written by Billy Ward and Rose Marks and was one of the first...
"One MinuteMan" is a song written by American rapper Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott. It was written and produced by Elliott and Timbaland for her third studio...
battles. The sculpture by Daniel Chester French, TheMinuteMan, located at the North Bridge, was unveiled on that day. A formal ball took place in the evening...
MinuteMan Air Field (IATA: MMN, FAA LID: 6B6) is a public-use airport in Stow, Massachusetts, United States. The airport is privately owned by Minute...
MinuteMan National Historical Park commemorates the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. It also includes the Wayside, home in turn to three...
plaque on TheMinuteMan statue reads in part "On the 19 of April 1775 was made the first forcible resistance to British aggression..." The towns of Lexington...
of land make up what is known as the North Bridge unit of theMinuteMan National Historical Park and is managed by the National Park Service. It is a popular...
The Four Minute Men were a group of volunteers authorized by United States President Woodrow Wilson to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them...
American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture TheMinuteMan in Concord, Massachusetts...
Revolution, and the opening stanza is inscribed beneath the Daniel Chester French TheMinuteMan statue dedicated (along with a replica of the Old North Bridge)...
in the 4th film of Herrington that was excavated by the Japanese: Buckshot MinuteMan Series 18;[citation needed] this would become practice on the videos...
(formerly the Bay Road) in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and operated as a historic house museum by the National Park Service as part of theMinuteMan National...
manager of a company and given a minute, what would you do? In the story The One Minute Manager, describe a motivated young man is trying to find an effective...
kept her foot on the device's pedal, causing a five-minute portion of the tape to be rerecorded. When she listened to the tape, the gap had grown to 18+1⁄2...
The Last Minute is a 2001 British-American urban gothic film, written and directed by Stephen Norrington. It shows a struggling man hitting bottom and...
Roland Wells Robbins, The Story of theMinuteMan, (Stoneham, MA: George R. Barnstead & Son, 1945) pp. 13–24. Robert Musil, TheMan Without Qualities vol...
The Mad Minute was a pre-World War I bolt-action rifle speed shooting exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle. The...
Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army), a top selling 1964 toy gun Minute-Man, a Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero described as a "one-man army" Army of One (disambiguation)...
Global Information