Background
Partridge, William Ordway was born on April 11, 1861 in Paris, France. Son of George Sidney and Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge.
Partridge, William Ordway was born on April 11, 1861 in Paris, France. Son of George Sidney and Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge.
Student Columbia, 1885. Art education Rome, Florence, Paris. Honorary Master of Arts, Adelphi College, 1904.
Served as lecturer before National Social Science Association, Concord School Philosophy, Brooklyn Institute, et cetera Works include statue of Samuel Tilden, Riverside Drive, New New York Shakespeare, Lincoln Park, Chicago.
Bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton, Brooklyn.
Bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, Columbia University. Pieta, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New New York
Pocahontas Jamestown, Virginia Exhibited Salon, Paris. Royal Academy, London and Berlin.
Author: Art for America.
The Song Life of a Sculptor. The Technique of Sculpture. The Angel of Clay (novel), 1900.
Nathan Hale, the Ideal Patriot, 1902.
The Czar’s Gift (novel), 1906.
Married Margaret Ridgely Schott, 1905.