Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-23
JOHN @. A. WARD, SCULPTOR.
Famous Artist Who Was Called Maker
Of American History.

Famous Artist Who Was Called Maker
Of American History.
John Quincy Adams Ward. dean -.
American sculptUrs and one OF h"t
greatest. who died recently al his hol"'
in New York city in his eightir,h year.
was born in Urbana. o.. on June ~
1880.
Mr.. Ward spent practically his 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 hr
collaborated ON the famous equestrian
statue of Washington in New York
Among his other well known works
are equestrian statues of Sheridan ana
Hancock In Philadelphia. and in New
York the statues of 1.-The Indian Hunt
err" "The Pilgrim" Shakespeare. all IN
Central park. New York: Henry Ware
Beecher in Borough hall park. Brook
Ign; also statues of Commodore Perry
at Newport. X. l.. and Israel Putnam,
ut Hartford. Conn.
Daniel &. French. II pupil OF Ward
In paying 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. III work which 81.
Gaudens pronounced the finest euueS-
TRAN 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 ut
Jamestown. Va. in 1907. aud some Of
them moved west ward In the course of
time. stopping at Urbana. o., Mr..
Wards birthplace. He never saw a
piece OF sculpture before he was fif-
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 his parents. how
ever. who regarded the boys efforts
as fOoishness.
If 1t had not been for sister Ward
might have remained resident Of Ur-
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 seten years time he
turned out THE Indian Hunter"
which is one of the notable bits Of
sculpture nj present In Central park,
New York.
The first work for which Mr.. Ward
was paid was the execution Of VOLTS
head for n fountain In Mexico. He
was given so for II. 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 II
large house us well as clubhouse and
entertained In them large parties Of
his friends. When he was in his
prime Mr. Ward was n skillful boxer.
ana up to the end of his life he was II
Hercules for strength
One of his paternaI ancestors. John
Ward. reached this side of the Allan
tic In 1919. landing at Jamestown.
Va. and maternal ancestor settled
in Pennsylvania in 1861. 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.
zone of the makers Of American his
tory" In another sense he was a
'makcr of American history" since he
had preserved its chapters for all time
in the faces and figures of his many
noted statues.
MIR. Ward was married three times.
He had been an academician since
/ 1863.