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Lew Wallace
is a statue by
Andrew O'Connor
that has been produced in both
marble
and
bronze
versions.
The marble version, a gift from the
State of Indiana
, was unveiled in the
National Statuary Hall Collection
in the
Capitol
in
Washington, D.C.
, on January 11, 1910,
[1]
in a commission that O'Connor received through the intervention of architect
Cass Gilbert
, with whom O’Connor had previously worked,
[2]
The same year a bronze version of the work was dedicated in Wallace's home town of
Crawfordsville, Indiana
at what was to become the
General Lew Wallace Study and Museum
.
[2]
See also
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References
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- ^
Murdock, Myrtle Chaney,
National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol
, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. 32?33.
- ^
a
b
Soderman, Doris Flodin,
The Sculptors O’Connor
, Gundi Publishers, Worcester MA, 1995, pp. 46?47.
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