Lawrence Joseph Nowlan Jr. (January 11, 1965 – July 30, 2013) was an American sculptor and figurative artist known for his statues of notable individuals, including Harry Kalas and Jackie Gleason.
He also met his future wife while working at Saint-Gaudens, an intern with the Student Conservation Association named Heather Wiley, whom he married in 2003.
[2] Nowlan founded his own art studio on the second floor of a former Unitarian Church on Main Street in Windsor, Vermont, shortly after leaving his position at Saint-Gaudens for the first time in 1997.
[2][3] He created two works depicting the late Nile Kinnick, a 1939 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Iowa, who was killed during World War II.
[5] Nowlan's other public works include a statue of Jackie Gleason's character from The Honeymooners television show, Ralph Kramden, which stands inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, New York City.
[2] Nowlan's bronze statue of sports broadcaster Harry Kalas was unveiled in Citizens Bank Park in his native city of Philadelphia in 2011.
[2] Nationally, other major projects by Nowlan include a series of bass-reliefs installed at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California; a monument which stands at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and a 2012 monument to Bill Bergan, a track and field coach, which stands on the campus of Iowa State University.
[1][2][3] Nowlan had previously designed a well-known bronze statue of Harry Kalas, which was installed in the Citizen Bank Park in 2011.
[1] Nowlan's designed to statue to depict Frazier with the left hook he used to knock out his opponent, Muhammad Ali, and win the 1971 Fight of the Century at Madison Square Garden.
[6] Nowlan was survived by his wife Heather, their daughter Monet and son Teelin, and his six siblings, Peter, Joseph, Jeanne, Susan, Nancy and Danielle.