Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-17
JOHN q. A. WARD, SCULPTOR.
Famous Artist Who Was Called Maker
Of American History.

Famous Artist VINO was Sa''so "s"s'
Of American History.
John Quincy Adams Ward. dean OF
American sculptors and one OF her
greatest, who died recently ut his home
in New York city in his eightteth year.
was born in Urbana. o.. on June ~.
1880.
Mr.. Ward spent practically bis entire
life in New York city. having gone
there from Ohio in his youth. His
first teacher in the art Of sculpture
was Henry X. Brown, with whom he
elaborated on the famous equestrian
statue of Washington in New York.
Among his other we'll known works
are equestrian statues Of Sheridan and
Hancock in Philadelphia. aud in New
York the statues of 1.-The Indian Hunt
err" ''The Pilgrim" Shakespeare. all in
Central park, New York; Henry Ward
Beecher in Borough hall park. Brook
Ign; also statues of Commodore Perry
at Newport, R. l., and Israel Putnam
at Hartford, Conn.
Daniel g. French, pupil OF Ward.
in paying a tribute to his genius re-
called how Edwin Booth, the great
tragedian, posed for the Shakespeare
statue in Central park and gave help
full suggestion for arranging the folds
of the cloak. But his greatest work."
said Mr.. French, "a work which st.
Gaudens pronounced the finest eques-
trian statue in the world, is the statue
of General Thomas In Washington.
There the horse is real horse IN
every detail. Mr.. Ward knew horses
and loved them"
The ancestral Wards landed at
Jamestown, Va, in 1907, and some OF
them moved westward in the course of
time, stopping at Urbana. o., Mr..
Wards birthplace. He never saw
piece Of sculpture before he was if
teen years old, but long before that
he had learned how to make such
queer figures with mud and clay that
the country people called him Wards
queer boy"
One day he went to Cincinnati.
where he saw for the first time piece
Of real sculpture, the work OF Hiram
Powers. Returning home. he attempt
ed to mold figures of his own, without
encouragement from bis parents, how
ever, who regarded the boys efforts
as foolishness.
II it had not been for sister Ward
might have remained a resident of Dr.
bana The sister came from Brooklyn
to visit her parents and managed to
arrange for her brother to return with
her to New York for instruction. To-
ward the end Of seven years. time he
turned out 1.-THE Indian Hunter"
which is one Of the notable bits OF
sculpture at present in Central park.
New York.
The first work for which Mr.. Ward
was paid was the execution Of VOLTS
head for a fountain in Mexico. He
was given $40 for it. Mr.. Ward was
fond of fishing, and his real home Of
late years had been on his estate of
1000 acres at Peekamoose lake. In the
Catskills. Here the sculptor had
large house as we'll as clubhouse and
entertained in them large parties of
his friends. When he was III his
prime Mr.. Ward was skillful boxer.
and up to the end of his life he was a
Hercules for strength.
One Of his paternal ancestors. John
Ward, reached this side Of the Allan
tic in 1919. landing at jamestown.
Va, and maternal ancestor settled
I'm Pennsylvania in 1886. His lineage.
the fact that he never studied abroad
and the character Of his work made
him what his brother artists have
often called him, an Indigenous artist.
tone Of the makers Of American his
tory" In another sense he was a
''maker Of American history" since he
had preserved its chapters for all time
in the faces and figures Of his many
noted statues.
Mr.. Ward was married three times.
He had been an academician since
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