William Ordway Partridge

William Ordway Partridge (1861–1930) was an American sculptor whose work still adorns New York City.

William Partridge was born in Paris to American parents. At the end of the reign of Napoleon III, Partridge travelled to America to attend Columbia University; after a year of experimention in theatre, he went abroad to study sculpture.

His published work includes articles on aesthetics, as well as examinations of the verse novels Angel of Clay and The Czar's Gift.

Partridge went on to lecture at Stanford University, and assumed a professorship at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

He died in New York in 1930.

Artwork

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

• Samuel J. Tilden on Riverside Drive at 113th Street
• Thomas Jefferson
• Alexander Hamilton
• A bust of Dean John Howard Van Amringe at Columbia University
• The marble Pieta at St. Patrick's Cathedral
• The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant in Brooklyn
• The bust of Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican Club
• The marble "Peace Head" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Joseph Pulitzer Memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.

Affiliations

• Architectural League
• Sons of the Revolution
• Veteran Corps of Artillery
• American Institute of Architects (honorary)
• Royal Society of Arts, London