Andrew O'Connor (June 7, 1874 – June 9, 1941) was an American-Irish sculptor whose work is represented in museums in America, Ireland, Britain and France.[1]
O'Connor was involved in a minor controversy in 1909 when he was commissioned to design a statue for Commodore John Barry, of the American Revolutionary-era navy. O'Connor's first design was heatedly attacked by Irish-American groups. He submitted a second version, but it too was ultimately rejected, and the sculptor John J. Boyle received the commission.[4]
The Victims, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland, c. 1923, (dedicated 1947). Intended for a World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. (abandoned), it depicts a kneeling wife and a standing mother mourning a dead soldier.[7]
A copy of Kneeling Wife (c. 1923) is at the Tate Britain.[3]
Seated Abraham Lincoln, Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Maryland, 1931 (dedicated 1947). The statue was commissioned for the Rhode Island Statehouse, but the project was abandoned during the Depression.[9]
Vanderbilt Doors (1903), St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City
Gen. Henry Ware Lawton (1906), Indianapolis, Indiana
Gen. Lew Wallace (1910), U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Equestrian statue of the Marquis de LaFayette (1924), Baltimore, Maryland
Christ the King (1926), Dún Laoghaire, Ireland
Seated Abraham Lincoln (1931), Brentwood, Maryland
References
^Homan Potterton, Andrew O'Connor 1874–1941, Catalogue of an Exhibition at Trinity College, Dublin, 1974; Doris Flodin Soderman, The Sculptors O'Connor: Andrew Sr, 1847–1924, Andrew Jr, 1874–1941 (Worcester, Mass, 1995).