Statue of Lew Wallace

Lew Wallace
Marble version in the National Statuary Hall Collection
ArtistAndrew O'Connor
SubjectLew Wallace

Lew Wallace is a statue by Andrew O'Connor that has been produced in both marble and bronze versions.

The marble version, a gift from the State of Indiana, was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1910,[1] in a commission that O'Connor received through the intervention of architect Cass Gilbert, with whom O’Connor had previously worked,[2] The same year a bronze version of the work was dedicated in Wallace's home town of Crawfordsville, Indiana at what was to become the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum.[2]

  • Bronze version in Crawfordsville, Indiana
    Bronze version in Crawfordsville, Indiana

See also

References

  1. ^ Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. 32–33.
  2. ^ a b Soderman, Doris Flodin, The Sculptors O’Connor, Gundi Publishers, Worcester MA, 1995, pp. 46–47.


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