Edward McCartan

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Edward Francis McCartan (August 16, 1879 – September 20, 1947) was an

Born in Albany, New York, he studied at the Pratt Institute, with Herbert Adams. He also studied at 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 United States in 1910.

In 1914, McCartan became the Director of the sculpture department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City.^[1] Eleanor Mary Mellon was among those he taught during his career.^[2]

Posthumously honored by the

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.^[3]

McCartan sculpted the 19th issue of the

He died in New Rochelle, New York, September 20, 1947 and is buried at St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.^[10]

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
• Diana and Hound, 1923, High 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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edward McCartan.

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