He told the widow he would never add it to his sculpture. That’s more like it.īut the arrogant artist threw the happy head to the floor, smashing it. And when he showed it to his client, she, too, was happy. The sculptor got to work and made a happier head. She told the sculptor that it was too depressing, she was hoping for something happier. The Widow Thomas was not happy with O’Connor’s finished product. Her bare right foot poked from beneath her gown. O’Connor’s creation was larger than life, a bronze woman seated across from the general’s crypt. She reached out to Andrew O’Connor Jr., a top sculptor of the day. She wanted a sculpture to adorn Samuel’s grave. Kramer/USA Today Network New York State Team The Bronze Lady, seated across from the grave of Civil War General Samuel Thomas, has been irresistible to thrill-seeking locals in Sleepy Hollow, New York, who swear that after-hours visits to the oversized sculpture at the top of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery send shivers up their spines.Īnn didn’t think a mausoleum was enough to mark the memory of her millionaire husband.
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