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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 may be most familiar for his larger than lifesize standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York.
Early years
He was born in Urbana, Ohio, a city founded by his grandfather Colonel William Ward. He lived with his sister in Brooklyn, New York, where he trained under the well-established sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, who carved "J.Q.A. Ward, asst." on his equestrian monument of George Washington in Union Square. His younger brother was the artist Edgar Melville Ward. Ward went to Washington in 1857, where he made a name for himself with portrait busts of men in public life. In 1861 he worked for the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, providing models for decorative objects including gilt-bronze sword hilts for the Union Army. Ames was one of the largest brass, bronze and iron foundries in the United States.
Ward set up a studio in New York City in 1861 and was elected to the National Academy of Design the following year; he was their president till 1874. In 1882 a new New York studio on 52nd Street was designed for him by his friend Richard Morris Hunt, who was to collaborate with him on many projects over the years.
Ward was married three times.
Career
Nineteenth-century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation. Sculptors also made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works; Ward made use of new galvanoplastic duplicating techniques; many of Ward's reductions and galvanoplastic and die-stamped relief panels survive.
In 1903, with the collaboration of Paul Wayland Bartlett, he made the models for the marble pediment sculptures for the New York Stock Exchange. The pediment was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers.
Ward was a founder and president of the National Sculpture Society (1893–1904) and president of the National Academy of Design (1874). He was one of the first trustees in 1897 for the American Academy in Rome.
He died at his home in New York City in 1910. A copy of his Indian Hunter stands at his gravesite in Urbana, and his Urbana home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His sketchbooks are conserved at the Albany Institute of History & Art.
Public sculpture
1866 Indian Hunter, in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City
1867 The Good Samaritan Ether Monument, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
1868 "Matthew Perry Monument", Touro Park, Newport, Rhode Island
1869 "Seventh Regiment Memorial", Central Park, New York City. The bronze of a standing Union soldier is set on a high granite pedestal along the West Carriage Drive at 69th Street. Actor and dramatist Steele MacKaye, who served in the 7th Regiment, was its model.
1871 Major General John F. Reynolds Statue, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1872 William Shakespeare, Central Park, New York City
1878 William Gilmore Simms, White Point Garden, Charleston, South Carolina
1879 Major General George Henry Thomas, Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C.
1881 "Victory" (statue), Yorktown Victory Monument, Yorktown, Virginia
1881 General Daniel Morgan Monument, Spartanburg, South Carolina
1882 George Washington, Federal Hall National Memorial, New York City
1883 Lafayette, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
1884 "The Pilgrim" (statue), Central Park, New York City
1887 James A. Garfield Monument, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
1891 Henry Ward Beecher Monument, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
1893 Governor Horace Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
1898 Equestrian statue of General Winfield S. Hancock, Smith Memorial Arch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1903 Integrity Protecting the Works of Man, pediment of the New York Stock Exchange Building, Manhattan, New York City
1910 Financier August Belmont, Newport, Rhode Island
1916 General Phillip H. Sheridan Statue, East Capitol Park, Albany, New York (installed posthumously) |