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for Henry Merwin Shrady
1871 - 1922
Shrady was the son of a noted surgeon and medical editor. He graduated Columbia College in 1894. Although he entered the 1896 class of the university's law school, he left because of illness. While Shrady was employed as an assistant sales manager of the Continental Match Company, a position he held until about 1900, he began drawing and watercolor painting as an avocation.
After sculpting several small studies in clay, Shrady executed his first work of importance, Battery in Action, which was duplicated in bronze by a New York jeweler. In 1902, the sculptor won a competition for an equestrian statue of George Washington, erected in Washington, D.C. In order to study figures in action, Shrady joined the National Guard during that year. He spent the remainder of his career completing a commission for the Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C. The artist died in New York, two weeks before the memorial was unveiled.
After sculpting several small studies in clay, Shrady executed his first work of importance, Battery in Action, which was duplicated in bronze by a New York jeweler. In 1902, the sculptor won a competition for an equestrian statue of George Washington, erected in Washington, D.C. In order to study figures in action, Shrady joined the National Guard during that year. He spent the remainder of his career completing a commission for the Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C. The artist died in New York, two weeks before the memorial was unveiled.
