Fallen Soldier (study for The Bronx Victory Memorial)

The Irish-American sculptor Jerome Connor lived at Annascaul, Co. Kerry for fourteen years before emigrating with his family to Holyoke, Massachusetts. From 1898 – 1903 he lived in the Roycroft in New York State, a community of craft workers and artists. It was from here that he developed his style as a sculptor, working on monuments and memorials. In 1910, Connor established his own studio in Washington, D.C. The present work is a study for the Bronx Victory Memorial at Mosholu Parkway and Marion Avenue in the Bronx, New York City. At the end of the First World War in 1918, local citizens formed the Bronx Victory Memorial Association and commissioned Connor to create the war memorial.