William Rudolf O'Donovan

Biography

Selected works

• Relief portrait of Bayard Taylor, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
• Portrait of Winslow Homer, bronze. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• John Paulding, Captors' Monument, Patriot's Park, Tarrytown, New York.
• Cavalry Officer; Sailor, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• Bas-relief panels of Herkimer Directing the Oriskany Battle and Combat, Oriskany Battlefield Monument, Oriskany, New York.
• George Washington, Plaza Washington, El Paraiso, Caracas, Venezuela.
• Marie Heimlicher, bronze. Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
• Colonel Daniel Morgan, Saratoga Battle Monument, Saratoga National Historical Park, Victory Mills, New York.
• Tower of Victory, Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh, New York.
• *George Washington.
• * Architectural sculptures of Rifleman; Artilleryman; Light Dragoon; and Infantry Line Officer.
• Irish Brigade Monument, Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A granite Celtic Cross guarded by a life-size bronze statue of an Irish wolfhound.
• Bust of Walt Whitman, unlocated.
• Archbishop Hughes, Fordham University, Fordham, New York.
• Trenton Battle Monument, Trenton, New Jersey.
• * Colossal Statue of George Washington.
• * Private John Russell and Private Blair McClenachan, two statues of 14th Regiment Massachusetts soldiers flanking the monument's entrance.
• * Thomas Eakins modeled two bas-relief panels for the monument's base; Charles Henry Niehaus modeled the third panel.
• Bust of Thomas Eakins, bronze; unlocated. Exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, 1893, item #154.
• Bas-relief panels of President Lincoln and General Grant, Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York. O'Donovan modeled the men; Thomas Eakins modeled the horses.