William Ordway Partridge
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William Ordway Partridge (April 11, 1861–1930) was an American sculptor whose work still adorns New York City.
William Partridge was born in Paris to American parents. At the end of the reign of Napoleon III, Partridge travelled to America to attend Columbia University; after a year of experimention in theatre, he went abroad to Paris, Florence and Rome to study sculpture.
His published work includes articles on aesthetics, several books including Art For America (1894), The Song Life of a Sculptor, (1894), The Technique of Sculpture (1895), as well as the verse novels Angel of Clay (1900) and The Czar's Gift (1906).
In 1893 eleven of his works were displayed at the Chicago World's Fair, according to the official catalog of the Fine Arts Building at the fair. In this same catalog he was listed as living in Milton, Massachusetts.
Partridge went on to lecture at Stanford University, and assumed a professorship at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
He died in New York in 1930.
[edit] Selected works
A considerable amount of Partridge's statuary remains on public display in New York City:
- Samuel J. Tilden on Riverside Drive at 113th Street
- Thomas Jefferson, in front of Journalism Hall at Columbia University
- Thomas Jefferson, New York Historic Society, 1901
- Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton Grange, New York, (1893)
- A bust of Dean John Howard Van Amringe at Columbia University
- The marble Pieta at St. Patrick's Cathedral
- The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant in Brooklyn
- The bust of Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican Club
- The marble "Peace Head" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Joseph Pulitzer Memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
[edit] Affiliations
- Architectural League of New York
- Sons of the Revolution
- Veteran Corps of Artillery
- American Institute of Architects (honorary)
- Royal Society of Arts, London
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