| Description |
1 online resource (90 pages). |
| Series |
Edith Wharton anthology |
|
Edith Wharton anthology.
|
|
BiblioBoard Core module.
|
| Note |
At head of title: Edith Wharton's war charities in France. |
|
Original document: Book. |
| Summary |
Exhibition of the Works of the Sculptor O’Connor catalogs the works of Andrew O’Connor at an exhibition which ran from 7 June 1874 – 9 June 1941. A fifty-cent admission was charged to benefit Edith Wharton’s war charities in France. The exhibition included approximately 21 plaster works, 9 bronzes, and 18 marbles. Entries in the catalog for exhibited works are interspersed with photographs of some of O’Connor’s on-site permanent installations as well as preparatory sketches of large commissioned monuments. Andrew O’Connor was an American sculptor who acquired the skills of modeling and carving from his father, a sculptor of cemetery and portrait busts. During his early career, O’Connor worked with a variety of artists and architects. Most notably, he assisted Daniel Chester French with works commissioned for the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition and John Singer Sargent with studies for his Frieze of Prophets, commissioned for the Boston Public Library. As an established sculpture, O’Conner created many public monuments and memorials in both the U.S. and Ireland. A variety of his works have been claimed by museums in the U.S., Ireland, Britain and France. O’Connor lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914 where he met, befriended and became artistically influenced by Auguste Rodin. At the outbreak of WWI, he returned to Paxton Massachusetts and set up a studio there. After the war, he became the first foreign sculptor to win the Grand Prix at the annual Paris Salon des Artistes Français. O’Connor frequently used his wife Jessie as a model. In 1900, he became a teacher to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, possibly the result of O’Conner’s assisting Daniel Chester French with the design and sculpture of the central bronze doors of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City. These were commissioned in memory of Cornelius Vanderbilt II by his wife Alice, mother of Gertrude.ℓ After leaving his tutelage to open her own studio, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney continued to provide financial support for O’Connor as well as a setting for his exhibits at her own Whitney Studio in New York.ℓ |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Sculpture, American.
|
|
