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John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – May 1, 1910) was an American sculptor, who is most familiar for his over-lifesize standing statue of George Washington (1882, illustration, right below) on the steps of Federal Hall in Wall Street.

Early Years

He was born in Urbana, Ohio, a city that had been founded by his grandfather Col. William Ward, and went to live with his sister in Brooklyn, New York, where he trained under the well-established sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, who carved "J.Q.A. Ward, asst." on his equestrian monument of George Washington in Union Square. Ward went to Washington in 1857, where he made a name with portrait busts of men in public life. In 1861 he worked for the Ames Sword Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, providing models for decorative objects including gilt-bronze sword hilts for the Union Army. Ames also was one of the largest brass, bronze and iron foundries in the US.
Ward set up a studio in New York City in 1861 and was elected to the National Academy of Design the following year; he was its president from 1874. In 1882 a new New York studio on 52nd Street Street was designed for him by his friend, Richard Morris Hunt who was to collaborate with him on many projects over the years.

Career

Nineteenth-century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation. Sculptors also made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works; Ward made use of new galvanoplastic duplicating techniques; many of Ward's reductions and galvanoplastic and die-stamped relief panels survive.
   In 1903, with the collaboration of Paul Wayland Bartlett, he made the models for the marble pediment sculptures for the New York Stock Exchange. The pediment was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers.
   Ward was a founder and president of the National Sculpture Society (1893–1904) and president of the National Academy of Design (1874).
   He died in 1910. A copy of his Indian Hunter stands at his gravesite in Urbana. His sketchbooks are conserved at the Albany Institute of History & Art.

Public Sculpture

1864 "Indian Hunter", Central Park, New York City
1867 "The Good Samaritan" Sculpture, Ether Monument, Boston Public Garden, Boston, MA
1874 Seventh Regiment Memorial, Central Park, New York City
1878 General George H. Thomas Monument, Thomas Circle, Washington, DC
1871 Major General John F. Reynolds Statue, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA
1881 "Victory" Statue, Yorktown Victory Monument, Yorktown, VA
1882 George Washington Statue, Federal Hall, New York City
1884 "The Pilgrim" Statue, Central Park, New York City
1887 James A. Garfield Monument, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
1893 Governor Horace Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT

Gallery

Image:Pilgrim Father Central Park NYC.jpg|The Pilgrim, 1884, Central Park, New York City Image:JQAWs7thRegiment.jpg|7th Regiment Monument, Central Park, New York City Image:JFReynolds GB3.jpg|Major General John F. Reynolds Statue, Gettysburg National Military Park Image:JfReynolds GB4.jpg|Closeup of Reynolds Statue Image:federal hall.jpg|Statue of George Washington, Federal Hall, New York City Image:Garfield-monument.jpg|James A. Garfield Monument, United States Capitol grounds Washington, D.C.

Trivia

He was married three times.

J.Q.A. Ward's brother Edgar Melville Ward was a notable artist in his own right, a realist painter specializing in character studies of working folk, who was the director of the National Academy of Design in New York for over twenty years..Further Information

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