William Ordway Partridge - Selected Works

Selected Works

A considerable amount of Partridge's statuary remains on public display in New York City and other locations:

• Samuel J. Tilden, on Riverside Drive at 113th Street.
• Thomas Jefferson, in front of Journalism Hall at Columbia University.
• Thomas Jefferson, New-York Historical Society, 1901.
• Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton Grange, New York, (1892.) This standing figure was commissioned by the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn and having been exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition, stood in front of the Club's premises in Brooklyn Heights, 1893–1936, when it was removed to its present location. A replica erected 1908 stands in front of Hamilton Hall, Columbia University.
• Edward Everett Hale, bust, Union League Club of Chicago. (Appleton's Cyclopaedia)
• A bust of Dean John Howard Van Amringe at Columbia University.
• Nathan Hale
• The marble memorial plaque showing the likeness of James Smithson in the crypt room where Smithson's tomb is located, inside The Castle Building of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1900. The original of this work is in Genoa, Italy, where Smithson died.
• The Resurrection, marble bas-relief for the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., 1902.
• The marble Pietà at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
• The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant, commissioned by the Union Club of Brooklyn and unveiled April 27, 1896, in Grant Square, at Bedford Avenue and Dean Street, Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
• The bust of Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican Club.
• The marble "Peace Head" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Anne's Tablet, memorial to Constance Fenimore Woolson, Mackinac Island, Michigan
• Pietà, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, transept.
• The Samuel H. Kauffman Memorial ca. 1921, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. A seated bronze figure on a marble exedra with bronze bas-reliefs of the Serven Ages of Man after Shakespeare.
• The Joseph Pulitzer Memorial (1913) in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx. Seated mourning figure.
• Memory 1914. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York.