''Lew Wallace'' is a statue by
Andrew O'Connor that has been produced in both
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and
bronze versions.
The marble version, a gift from the
State of Indiana
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, was unveiled in the
National Statuary Hall Collection
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in the
Capitol
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in
Washington, D.C.
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on January 11, 1910,
[Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, ''National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol'', Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. 32–33.] in a commission that O'Connor received through the intervention of architect
Cass Gilbert
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, with whom O’Connor had previously worked,
[Soderman, Doris Flodin, ''The Sculptors O’Connor'', Gundi Publishers, Worcester MA, 1995, pp. 46–47.] The same year a bronze version of the work was dedicated in Wallace's home town of
Crawfordsville, Indiana
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at what was to become the
General Lew Wallace Study and Museum.
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See also
* Lew Wallace
Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is ...
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