Edward McCartan

Edward Francis McCartan (August 16, 1879 – September 20, 1947) was an American sculptor, best known for his decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s.

Life

McCartan studied at the Art Students League of New York and then in Paris for three years under Jean Antoine Injalbert before his return to the U.S. in 1910. In 1914, McCartan became the Director of the sculpture department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City.

Eugene Field Memorial (detail)

Posthumously honored by the National Sculpture Society, his public monuments were few—but the Eugene Field Memorial ("Winken, Blinken, and Nod") can still be found in the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.

McCartan's sculpture, The Nude, was stolen from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan and was discovered at the bottom of the Detroit River eight years later.

Other 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 is buried at Saint Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.

Works

• Girl Drinking from a Shell, c. 1915 Reading Public Museum
• Nymph and Satyr, 1920, The Century Association
• Boy and Panther, 1920
• Dream Lady, Eugene Field Memorial 1922, Lincoln Park
• Diana, 1923, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Dionysus (McCartan) 1923 remodeled 1936 Brookgreen Gardens
• Diana and Doe 1924
• Bather, 1935, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• Nymph and Frog, 1938

External links

• Official site
• "Edward McCartan". Ilovefigurativesculpture. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
• Edward McCartan at Find a Grave