Charles Mulligan

Charles J. Mulligan
Charles J. Mulligan
Born	September 28, 1866; Ireland
Died	March 25, 1916 (aged 49); Chicago, Illinois
Resting place	Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago
Nationality	Irish-American
Alma mater	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known for	Stone sculpture
Movement	City Beautiful movement

Charles J. Mulligan (September 28, 1866–March 25, 1916) was an American sculptor born in Riverdale, County Tyrone, Ireland. He immigrated to America at the age of 17 and found work as a stone cutter in Pullman, Illinois, near Chicago.

He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft, who was also working as an assistant at the time. During the Columbian Exposition in 1893 Taft made Mulligan the foreman of the workshop producing a large amount of sculpture for the exhibition.[1] He later studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Alexandre Falguière.

Mulligan taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was closely identified with the Chicago Beautiful movement.[2]

Mulligan died on March 25, 1916, in Chicago.[3] He died at St. Luke's Hospital accompanied by his wife and three children.[2] At the time of his death, he had just been awarded a commission to build his design of a statue of Mad Anthony Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[2]

He was buried at Mount Greenwood Cemetery.[2]

Selected works

Miner and Child, photographed in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Peace Monument, Decatur, Indiana
Lincoln, Grant and Richard Yates, at the Illinois Memorial Temple, Vicksburg National Cemetery,
Lincoln the Rail Splitter, Garfield Park, Chicago, 1911 [1]
Lincoln the Orator, Rosamond, Illinois [1]
Miner and Child, Humboldt Park, Chicago, 1901
Statue of Colonel Finnerty[2]
Bust of Governor John R. Tanner, Tanner Mausoleum, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois
Illinois Supreme Court Building, 2 architectural groups [4]
Henry Clay statue in Lexington, Kentucky[2]

References

Bullard, F. Lauriston, Lincoln in Marble and Bronze, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952 pp118-119
"Charles J. Mulligan Passes Away". American Stone Trade: 14. 1 April 1916. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Annual, Volume 13. MacMillan Company. p. 317.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2016-12-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[Bullard,_F._Lauriston_pp118-119-1] Bullard, F. Lauriston, Lincoln in Marble and Bronze, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952 pp118-119

[ASTObit-2] "Charles J. Mulligan Passes Away". American Stone Trade: 14. 1 April 1916. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

[3] Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Annual, Volume 13. MacMillan Company. p. 317.

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2016-12-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)