Edward Francis McCartan

{"Id":803,"Name":"Edward Francis McCartan","Biography":"Edward McCartan was an American sculptor who studied at the Pratt Institute, with Herbert Adams as well as the Art Students League of New York with George Grey Barnard and Hermon Atkins MacNeil, and then in Paris for three years under Jean Antoine Injalbert before his return to the U.S. in 1910.\u003Cp\u003E\n\nIn 1914, McCartan became the Director of the sculpture department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City.\u003CP\u003E\n\nPosthumously honored by the National Sculpture Society, his public monuments were few, but the Eugene Field Memorial can still be found in the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.\u003CP\u003E\n\nMcCartan\u0027s sculpture, \u0022The Nude\u0022 was stolen from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan and was discovered at the bottom of the Detroit River eight years later.\u003CP\u003E\n\nOther work can be found at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building, a national historic site in Newark, New Jersey includes pilasters by the artist. He worked on a pediment for the Department of Labor Building, in 1934 to 1935.\u003CP\u003E\n\nHe died in New Rochelle, New York September 20, 1947 and is buried at Saint Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":3}