John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – 1910) was an American sculptor, who is most familiar for his colossal standing statue of Washington (illustration, right) on the steps of Federal Hall in Wall Street (1882).

He was born in Urbana, Ohio and trained under Henry K. Brown, then went to Washington in 1857, where he made a name with portrait busts of men in public life. He set up a studio in New York City in 1861 and was elected to the National Academy of Design the following year.

Several of his sculptures are in Central Park, New York City: Indian Hunter (1864) which was shown at the Paris universal Exposition of 1867 and made his reputation, and The Pilgrim (1884), near East 72nd Street.

19th century American commissions for sculpture were largely confined to portrait busts and monuments, where Ward was preeminent in his generation, and sculptors made a living selling bronze reductions of their public works: many of Ward's survive.

In 1903, with the collaboration of P. W. Bartlett, he made the pediment sculptures for the New York Stock Exchange.

Ward was a founder and president of the National Sculpture Society (1893–1904) and president of the National Academy of Design (1874). A biography: A. Adams, John Quincy Adams Ward 1912

External links

• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography 1887-9: list of sculptures