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William Rudolph O'Donovan

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William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844 - 1920) was active/lived in New York, West Virginia.  William ODonovan is known for Portrait bust and bas-relief sculpture, some landscape painting.

William Rudolf O'Donovan was an American sculptor, primarily known for portrait busts and bas reliefs of prominent persons including George Washington, a frequent and favorite subject, about whom he published a series of papers on Washington portraits. He lived most of his career in New York City. Between 1871 and 1895, he received many of his commissions through Maurice Power, owner of the National Fine Art Foundry and powerfully connected to the Democratic Party. 

O'Donovan was born in Preston County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and taught himself to sculpt. After the Civil War, in which he served in the Confederate army, he opened a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City and became well known as a sculptor, especially of memorial pieces and monuments such as a commemoration of John Paulding, Revolutionary War hero.  He also collaborated with Thomas Eakins on equestrian portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Rudolph O'Donovan
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Tile Club (1877-1887) December 1999 Pisano, Ronald G Yes
19 Book References for William Rudolph O'Donovan
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America 112 Yes
1999 Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865 451 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
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