Lew Wallace is a statue of the American Union general, politician, and author Lew Wallace by American-Irish sculptor Andrew O'Connor that has been produced in both marble and bronze versions.
The marble version, a gift from the State of Indiana, was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1910,Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. 32–33. in a commission that O'Connor received through the intervention of architect Cass Gilbert, with whom O’Connor had previously worked.Soderman, Doris Flodin, The Sculptors O’Connor, Gundi Publishers, Worcester MA, 1995, pp. 46–47. The same year a bronze version of the work was dedicated in Wallace's home town of Crawfordsville, Indiana, at what was to become the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum.
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