Lew Wallace (O'Connor)
| Lew Wallace | |
|---|---|
 Marble version in the National Statuary Hall Collection | |
| Artist | Andrew O'Connor |
| Subject | Lew Wallace |
Lew Wallace is a statue by Andrew O'Connor that has been produced in both marble and bronze versions.
The marble version, a gift from the State of Indiana, was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 11, 1910,[1] in a commission that O’Connor received through the intervention of architect Cass Gilbert, with whom O’Connor had previously worked,[2] The same year a bronze version of the work was dedicated in Wallace’s home town of Crawfordsville, Indiana at what was to become the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum. [3]
References
- ↑ Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation’s Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. 32-33.
- ↑ Soderman, Doris Flodin, The Sculptors O’Connor, Gundi Publishers, Worchester MA, 1995, p. 46.
- ↑ Soderman 1995, p. 47.
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