Andrew O'Connor (sculptor)

Andrew O'Connor (1874-1941) is an American-Irish sculptor whose work is represented in museums in America, Ireland, Britain and France. He was born in Worcester, Mass and died in Dublin. For a time he was in the London studio of the painter, John Singer Sargent, and later worked for the architects, McKim, Mead and White in America and with the sculptor Daniel Chester French. Settling in Paris in the early years of the 20th century, he exhibited annually at the Paris Salon. In 1906 he was the first foreign sculptor to win the Second Class medal for his statue of General Lawton, now in Garfield Park, Indianapolis. In 1928 he achieved a similar distinction by being awarded the Gold Medal for his Tristan and Iseult, a marble group now in the Brooklyn Museum. An early work, of about 1900, is the Vanderbilt Memorial Doors to St Bartholomew's Church, New York and there are statues by him in the Capitol, Washington DC (General Lew Wallace), St Paul, Minn (General Johnson), Springfield, Ill (Lincoln), Providence, RI (Lincoln), Baltimore (Lafayette). A number of his plaster casts are in the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin and there are works in Tate Britain, the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.

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