Charles J. Mulligan American sculptor born in Riverdale, Ireland. He immigrated to America at the age of 17 and found work as a stone cutter in Pullman, Illinois, near Chicago.

He studied at the Chicago Art Institute with Lorado Taft

Lorado Taft

Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936.-Early years and education:...

, also working as an assistant him. During the Columbian Exposition in 1893 Taft made Mulligan the foreman of the workshop producing a large amount of sculpture for the exhibition. He later studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

 in Paris with Alexandre Falguière

Alexandre Falguière

Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière was a French sculptor and painter.He was born in Toulouse...

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He died on March 25, 1916, in Chicago.

Selected Works

• Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
  
  , Grant and Richard Yates, at the Illinois Memorial Temple, Vicksburg National Cemetery,

• Lincoln the Rail Splitter
  Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
  
  , Garfield Park, Chicago, 1911

• Lincoln the Orator, Rosamund, Illinois

• Miner and Child, Humboldt Park
  Humboldt Park, Chicago
  Humboldt Park is one of 77 officially designated community areas located on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is widely known for its large Puerto Rican presence...
  
  , Chicago, 1901

• Col Finnerty
  John F. Finerty
  John Frederick Finerty was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Biography:Born in Galway, Ireland, Finerty completed preparatory studies. He immigrated to the United States in 1864. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and served in the Ninety-ninth Regiment, New York State Militia...
  
  

• Illinois Supreme Court Building, 2 architectural groups