Study for a Vase (from Sketchbook)
John Quincy Adams Ward
ca. 1860
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
5 7/16 × 3 1/2 in. (13.8 × 8.9 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985
Accession Number
1985.351.17 recto
About the Artist
John Quincy Adams Ward · 1830–1910
John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910) was born in Urbana, Ohio, the fourth of eight children, and displayed an early aptitude for three-dimensional form, modeling figures in clay from childhood. In 1849 he moved to Brooklyn, New York, to apprentice under the sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, with whom he worked for seven years. Brown's emphasis on American subjects and his conviction that sculpture should ...