Frederick Moynihan

Frederick Moynihan was an American sculptor, born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1843. He died at his in New York City studio on January 9, 1910.^[1]

Moynihan studied at the Royal Academy in London before immigrating to the United States. He is best remembered for creating monuments commemorating the American Civil War.

Public monuments

Griffin A. Stedman Monument

• Pennsylvania's Ninth "Lochiel" Veteran Cavalry Monument, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1894
• Georgia State Monument. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1899
• Griffin A. Stedman Monument, Barry Square, Hartford, Connecticut, 1900
• General Gustavus Sniper, equestrian, Syracuse, New York, 1905
• J.E.B. Stuart,equestrian, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1907

Notes

1. American Art Annual, Volume 8. MacMillan Company. 1911. p. 400.

References

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• Hardin, Evemarie, Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, 1993
• Kerr, Jack, Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Collegedale, TN: The College Press, n.d.
• Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977
• Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986