William Wilson Corcoran
model 1882, carved 1883
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall: 73.66 × 48.26 × 33.02 cm (29 × 19 × 13 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Trustees of Hillcrest, Washington City Orphans' Asylum, by exchange)
Accession Number
2014.136.250
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 ...