The Indian Hunter
John Quincy Adams Ward
1860, cast by 1883
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
16 1/8 x 10 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (41 x 26.7 x 38.7 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1973
Accession Number
1973.257
Tags
MenHuntingDogs
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 ...