Charles Henry Niehaus - Selected Works

Selected Works

• James A. Garfield, Piatt Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1882-87.
• The Scraper (Athlete Using a Strigil), Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1883.
• Caestus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1883-85.
• Bust of James A. Garfield, United States Senate Art Collection, United States Capitol, ca. 1885.
• Bust of Daniel D. Tompkins, United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection, United States Capitol, Washington, DC, 1891.
• Bas-relief panel of Surrender of the Hessians, Trenton Battle Monument, Trenton, New Jersey, 1891–1893. William Rudolf O'Donovan sculpted the colossal George Washington statue atop the monument, and statues of two Continental soldiers flanking the entrance. Thomas Eakins modeled two other bas-relief panels.
• Moses; Edward Gibbon, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1894.
• Samuel Hahnemann Monument, Scott Circle, Washington, D.C., 1896-1900.
• Hackley Park, Muskegon, Michigan:
  • Bust of Charles Hackley, 1890.
  • Abraham Lincoln Monument, 1900.
    • Replicas of Niehaus's Abraham Lincoln are at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society in Buffalo, New York, and at Library Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  • David Farragut Monument, 1900.
  • William McKinley Monument, 1902.
• Bust of Robert Blum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1900.
• The Driller, Edwin Drake Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1901.
• Equestrian Statue of General Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest Grave, Forrest Park, Memphis, Tennessee, 1901-05.
• Apotheosis of St. Louis, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, 1906.
• William McKinley, McKinley Memorial Mausoleum, Canton, Ohio, 1907. Niehaus also modeled the lunette bas-relief over the entrance.
• Benjamin Harrison, Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1908.
• James W. Beardsley, Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1909.
• John Paul Jones, John Paul Jones Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C., 1912.
  • Niehaus's plaster original is at the United States Military Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
• Oliver Hazard Perry (1915-16), Front Park, Buffalo, New York.
• Orpheus (Francis Scott Key Monument), Fort McHenry National Monument, Baltimore, Maryland, 1916-22. Nickname: Orpheus with the Awkward Foot.
• Planting the Standard of Democracy in Honor of Newark's Soldiers, World War I Memorial, Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey, 1923.
• Hackensack War Monument, The Green, Bergen County Court House, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1924.
• At least 30 Civil War monuments and several World War I memorials.