Roderic

Artist Andrew O'Connor (1874 - 1941)

Date1939

MediumMarble

Dimensions52 x 30 x 21 cm

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Andrew O'Connor (the Artist), 1939.

Object number874

DescriptionThis is the head of the sculptor's son wearing a cap. This head was to be part of the 'Le Débarquément' (The Arrival) Monument, which was an unexecuted project for a war memorial for Washington, D.C. O'Connor worked on the project from 1918 to 1931 even though he was probably never commissioned to do so. The head was to appear in the foliage at the base of a highly decorated and colossal niche in which a young woman holding a flower in her left hand is standing (see Object Number 868). A large model was created, but was subsequently destroyed.

(Homan Potterton, 'Andrew O'Connor - A complementary catalogue to the exhibition marking the centenary of the sculptor's birth', Trinity College, Dublin, September 1974, pp. 45-49.)

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