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==Later Career== |
==Later Career== |
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About 1904, he settled in Paris with his supposed wife and model, Jesse Phoebe Brown, and they remained there until the outbreak of war in 1914. He exhibited at the Salon, first in 1906 (''General Lawton'') and every year thereafter until his return to the States in 1914. He established a studio at Paxton, Mass in 1914 and over the next twelve years or so carried out many commissions for public monuments in America and exhibited widely. He returned to Paris about 1926 and remained there until about 1932 when he went to live in Ireland but later had a studio in London. He died in Dublin. |
About 1904, he settled in Paris with his supposed wife and model, Jesse Phoebe Brown, and they remained there until the outbreak of war in 1914. He exhibited at the Salon, first in 1906 (''General Lawton'') and every year thereafter until his return to the States in 1914. He established a studio at Paxton, Mass in 1914 and over the next twelve years or so carried out many commissions for public monuments in America and exhibited widely. He returned to Paris about 1926 and remained there until about 1932 when he went to live in Ireland but later had a studio in London. He died in Dublin. |
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==Selected Works== |
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''Justice'' and other figures, Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ (1904); |
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''General Lawton'', Garfield Park, Indianapolis (1906); |
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''General Lew Wallace'', Hall of Fame, Capitol Building, Washington, DC (1909); |
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''Governor Johnson'', St Paul, Minnesota (1912); |
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''Spanish War Memorial'', Worcester, Mass (1917); |
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''Lincoln'', Springfield, Ill (1918); |
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''Lafayette'', Washington Place, Baltimore (1918); |
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There are works in the following museums: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Tate Gallery; National Gallery of Ireland; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. |
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Andrew O'Connor (1874-1941) was an American-Irish sculptor whose work is represented in museums in America, Ireland, Britain, and France.[1]
Training and Early Work
It is to be presumed that he was taught by his father, a Scottish-born sculptor of the same name, who was active in Worcester, Mass. He is first noted in 1891-92 when he was employed at the Chicago Worlds Fair, possibly as one of the studio of William Ordway Partridge. By 1894 he was in London and working in the studio of the painter John Singer Sargent where he was a model for one of the prophets for Sargent's mural for Boston Library. Through the sculptor D C French, O'Connor was awarded the commission in 1900 for the Vanderbilt Memorial bronze doors on St Bartholomew's Church, New York. At this time he was also employed by the architect, Cass Gilbert. He modeled a figure of Inspiration for the Art Palace at the St Louis Exposition, 1904.
Later Career
About 1904, he settled in Paris with his supposed wife and model, Jesse Phoebe Brown, and they remained there until the outbreak of war in 1914. He exhibited at the Salon, first in 1906 (General Lawton) and every year thereafter until his return to the States in 1914. He established a studio at Paxton, Mass in 1914 and over the next twelve years or so carried out many commissions for public monuments in America and exhibited widely. He returned to Paris about 1926 and remained there until about 1932 when he went to live in Ireland but later had a studio in London. He died in Dublin.
Selected Works
Justice and other figures, Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ (1904); General Lawton, Garfield Park, Indianapolis (1906); General Lew Wallace, Hall of Fame, Capitol Building, Washington, DC (1909); Governor Johnson, St Paul, Minnesota (1912); Spanish War Memorial, Worcester, Mass (1917); Lincoln, Springfield, Ill (1918); Lafayette, Washington Place, Baltimore (1918); There are works in the following museums: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Tate Gallery; National Gallery of Ireland; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
References
- ^ Homan Potterton, Andrew O'Connor 1874-1941, Catalogue of an Exhibition at Trinity College, Dublin, (1974); Doris Flodin Soderman, The Sculptors O'Connor: Andrew Sr, 1847-1924, Andrew Jr, 1874-1941, (Worcester, Mass, 1995).
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