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William Rudolf O'Donovan

William Rudolf O'Donovan

American sculptor

For other people named William O'Donovan, see William O'Donovan (disambiguation).

William Rudolf O'Donovan (March 28, 1844 – April 20, 1920[2]) was an American sculptor.

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Biography

O'Donovan was born in Preston County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and taught himself to sculpt. After the Civil War, in which O'Donovan served in the Confederate army, he opened a studio in New York City and became well known as a sculptor, especially of memorial pieces.[3]

In 1878, O'Donovan become an associate of the National Academy of Design.[3] George Washington was a favorite subject of his, and he published a series of papers on Washington portraits.[4] During the 1870s and 1880s he collaborated with Maurice J. Power, politician, sculptor and owner of the National Fine Art Foundry producing many works of public art.[5]

Selected works

Notes

  1. [1]
    Bust of Walt Whitman
  2. [2]
    "O'Donovan, William Rudolf". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
  3. [3]
     One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "O'Donovan, William Rudolf". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 9.
  4. [4]
    One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "O'Donovan, William Rudolf" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  5. [5]
    Reason, Akila (2010). Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0812241983.
  6. [6]
    Taylor relief from SIRIS.
  7. [7]
    Portrait of Winslow Homer from SIRIS.
  8. [8]
    Captors' Monument from SIRIS.
  9. [9]
    Lawrence, MA monument from SIRIS.
  10. [10]
    Oriskany Monument from SIRIS.
  11. [11]
    Inscription: "El Gobierno y el Pueblo de Venezuela a JORGE WASHINGTON Fundador de la Republica del Norte Erigido en el Centenario del Libertador Simon Bolivar 1883." Source: Frances David Whittemore, George Washington in Sculpture (2005), p. 125.
  12. [12]
    Venezuela Washington from Flickr.
  13. [13]
    Marie Heimlicher from SIRIS.
  14. [14]
    Col. Morgan from SIRIS.
  15. [15]
    Col. Morgan from Historic Marker Database.
  16. [16]
    Newburgh Washington from SIRIS.
  17. [17]
    Newburgh Washington from Flickr.
  18. [18]
    Irish Brigade from SIRIS.
  19. [19]
    Whitman bust from SIRIS.
  20. [20]
    Archbishop Hughes from Fordham University Library.
  21. [21]
    Trenton Battle Monument from SIRIS.
  22. [22]
    Trenton Washington from Destination Trenton.
  23. [23]
    Meredith Bzdak, Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999), pp. 36-37.
  24. [24]
    National Museum of American Art; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1993). Revisiting the white city: American art at the 1893 World's Fair. Washington, D.C. : Hanover: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Distributed by the University Press of New England. p. 371. ISBN 0937311014.
  25. [25]
    Bust of Thomas Eakins from SIRIS
  26. [26]
    Lincoln relief from SIRIS.
  27. [27]
    Grant relief from SIRIS.

References

  • Virginia Baird Kelly, William Rudolf O'Donovan and the Business, Politics, and Art of Sculpture (Masters thesis, Syracuse University, 1992).
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