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for Andrew J. O'Connor Jr.
1874 - 1941
O'Connor, who was the son of a sculptor, worked on figures for the Chicago World's Fair in the early 1890s, possibly in the studio of his friend William Ordway Partridge. He then served as a studio assistant to Daniel Chester French in New York. Between 1894 and 1898 he was in London where he worked in the studio of John Singer Sargent, posing for one of the figures in Sargent's murals for the Boston Public Library. In about 1900, he received his first important commission for a set of bronze doors for St. Bartholomew's Church in New York. He lived in Paris from 1903 to 1914 during which time he executed a number of portrait busts; he was in London during the 1930s to execute a statue, Christ the King, for the entrance to the harbor at Kingston, Ireland. The American sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was one of his students during his years in Paris.
Among his best known public monuments are full-length statues of General Henry Lawton (1906, Garfield Park, Indianapolis), General Lew Wallace (1909, Statuary Hall, Washington, D. C.), and Governor *** Johnson (1912, St. Paul, Minnesota); a monument to the Spanish War of 1898 (1917, Worcester, Massachusetts); a statue of Abraham Lincoln (State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois); eleven marble statues for the Essex County, New Jersey, courthouse; and the Roosevelt Memorial for the Boy Scouts of America (1919, Glen View Golf Club, Chicago). A number of his smaller works are in the collection of the Dublin Municipal Gallery and in museums in the United States including the Metropolitan in New York.
O'Connor is shown in the Academy's portrait facing the viewer and wearing an open shirt.
Among his best known public monuments are full-length statues of General Henry Lawton (1906, Garfield Park, Indianapolis), General Lew Wallace (1909, Statuary Hall, Washington, D. C.), and Governor *** Johnson (1912, St. Paul, Minnesota); a monument to the Spanish War of 1898 (1917, Worcester, Massachusetts); a statue of Abraham Lincoln (State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois); eleven marble statues for the Essex County, New Jersey, courthouse; and the Roosevelt Memorial for the Boy Scouts of America (1919, Glen View Golf Club, Chicago). A number of his smaller works are in the collection of the Dublin Municipal Gallery and in museums in the United States including the Metropolitan in New York.
O'Connor is shown in the Academy's portrait facing the viewer and wearing an open shirt.
