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Daniel Chester French

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Daniel Chester French's "The Spirit of Life"

McCarty, Perry Howell · 1965

A student paper by Perry Howell McCarty on the Daniel Chester French sculpture 'The Spirit of Life' that stands in the lobby of the Louis Round Wilson Library at Chapel Hill. The paper was written for the course Art 80 and dated 4 May 1965. French, an American sculptor, lived from 1850 to 1931.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931.

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