Charles Mulligan
Charles J. Mulligan (September 28, 1866–1916) was an American sculptor born in Riverdale, County Tyrone, Ireland. He immigrated to America at the age of 17 and found work as a stone cutter in Pullman, Illinois, near Chicago.
He studied at the Chicago Art Institute with Lorado Taft, also working as an assistant him. During the Columbian Exposition in 1893 Taft made Mulligan the foreman of the workshop producing a large amount of sculpture for the exhibition.[1] He later studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Alexandre Falguière.
He died on March 25, 1916, in Chicago.[2]
Selected works
Miner and Child, photographed in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Peace Monument, Decatur, Indiana
- Lincoln, Grant and Richard Yates, at the Illinois Memorial Temple, Vicksburg National Cemetery,
- Lincoln the Rail Splitter, Garfield Park, Chicago, 1911 [3]
- Lincoln the Orator, Rosamond, Illinois [4]
- Miner and Child, Humboldt Park, Chicago, 1901
- Col Finnerty
- Bust of Governor John R. Tanner, Tanner Mausoleum, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois
- Illinois Supreme Court Building, 2 architectural groups [5]
References
- ↑ Bullard, F. Lauriston, ‘’Lincoln in Marble and Bronze’’, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952 pp118-119
- ↑ Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Annual, Volume 13. MacMillan Company. p. 317.
- ↑ Bullard, F. Lauriston, ‘’Lincoln in Marble and Bronze’’, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952 pp118-119
- ↑ Bullard, F. Lauriston, ‘’Lincoln in Marble and Bronze’’, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952 pp118-119
- ↑ http://www.archsculptbooks.com/home.htm
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