Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
George Washington
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John Quincy Adams Ward
1830 - 1910
George Washington
inscribed J.Q.A. Ward Sc. (on the base); inscribed GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS (along the base)
bronze
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
Conceived in 1882; this example cast in or after 1911.
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 252
Lewis I. Sharp, New York City Public Sculpture by 19th Century American Artists, New York, 1974, no. 8, pp. 30-1, illustrated
Lewis I. Sharp, John Quincy Adams Ward: Dean of American Sculpture, with a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, 1985, no. 69.4, p. 212, illustrated