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John Quincy Adams Ward,
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John Quincy Adams Ward (
June 29,
1830 –
May 1,
1910) was an
American sculptor, who is most familiar for his colossal standing statue of
George Washington (
illustration) on the steps of
Federal Hall in Wall Street (
1882).
He was born in
Urbana, Ohio and trained under
Henry Kirke Brown, then went to Washington in
1857, where he made a name with portrait busts of men in public life. He set up a studio in
New York City in
1861 and was elected to the
National Academy of Design the following year.
thumb|left|The Pilgrim, 1884Several of his sculptures are in
Central Park,
New York City:
Indian Hunter (
1864) which was shown at the
Paris universal Exposition of 1867 and made his reputation, and
The Pilgrim (
1884), near East 72nd Street. His
James A. Garfield Monument, unveiled in 1887, stands at the base of Capitol Hill in
Washington, D.C.19th century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation, and sculptors made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works: many of Ward's survive.
thumb|right|200px|The statue of [George Washington (1882) in front of Federal Hall, New York.]
In
1903, with the collaboration of
Paul Wayland Bartlett, he made the pediment sculptures for the
New York Stock Exchange.
Ward was a founder and president of the
National Sculpture Society (
1893–
1904) and president of the
National Academy of Design (1874).
A biography: A. Adams,
John Quincy Adams Ward 1912
Literature
*
Lorado Taft,
History of American Sculpture (New York, 1905)
*
Adeline Adams,
J. Q. A. Ward, An Appreciation (New York, 1911)
External links
*
http://www.famousamericans.net/johnquincyadamsward/ Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography 1887-9: list of sculptures
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