Charles Mulligan

Charles J. Mulligan (September 28, 1866–March 25, 1916) was an American sculptor born in Riverdale, County Tyrone, 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 School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft, who was also working as an assistant at the time. 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 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Alexandre Falguière.

Mulligan taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was closely identified with the Chicago Beautiful movement.

Mulligan died on March 25, 1916, in Chicago. He died at St. Luke's Hospital accompanied by his wife and three children. At the time of his death, he had just been awarded a commission to build his design of a statue of Mad Anthony Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He was buried at Mount Greenwood Cemetery.

Selected works

• Peace Monument, Decatur, Indiana
• Lincoln, Grant and Richard Yates, at the Illinois Memorial Temple, Vicksburg National Cemetery,
• Lincoln the Rail Splitter, Garfield Park, Chicago, 1911
• Lincoln the Orator, Rosamond, Illinois
• Miner and Child, Humboldt Park, Chicago, 1901
• Statue of Colonel Finnerty
• Bust of Governor John R. Tanner, Tanner Mausoleum, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois
• Illinois Supreme Court Building, 2 architectural groups
• Henry Clay statue in Lexington, Kentucky