William Rudolf O'Donovan

William Rudolf O'Donovan

William Rudolf O'Donovan (1844-1920), an American sculptor, was born in Preston county, Virginia, on the 28th of March 1844. He had no technical art training, but after the Civil War, in which he served in the Confederate army, he opened a studio in New York City and became a well-known sculptor, especially of memorial pieces. Among these are statues of "George Washington" (in Caracas), "Lincoln and Grant" (Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn), the captors of Major André (Tarrytown, New York), and "Archbishop Hughes" (Fordham University, Fordham, N.Y.), and a memorial tablet to Bayard Taylor (Cornell University). In 1878 he become an associate of the National Academy of Design.


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