Lew Wallace | |
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Artist | Andrew O'Connor |
Subject | Lew Wallace |
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]