Works of Thomas McGlynn II

Tom with Terrence Cardinal Cooke of New York, 1974. This glimpse of Tom's Pietrasanta studio shows the Pope John XXIII bust in the background; the St. Dominic study is to the left; the unfinished Job is in the forefront.

Pope John XXIII, original plaster, twice life-size, 1966 This figure is the head study for a proposed nine foot figure. A competition was set up in Italy for a proposed monument to the Pope. The monument was never made, but Tom had the head cast in bronze. The first casting is at the headquarters of the Italian Bishop's Conference in Rome, the second casting graces the McGlynn Sculpture Court at Providence College.

The Flight Into Egypt, bronze, 4", 1965 This figure is one of this most spontaneous and creative works. three young Italian girls from the Pietrasanta neighborhood frequently visited his studio. While he enjoyed talking with these small children, it did take up valuable time. Ton day, in 1965, when they stopped by when he was very busy, he asked, "Do you want to see me make a donkey?" With that, he took some wax and very quickly made a donkey.

He then proceed to add a man, a woman, and a child riding on the donkey and completed the small sculpture in an hour without any deep reflection on the process. What he had made was a small sculpture of Mary, Joseph , and the child Jesus fleeing into Egypt to avoid the persecution of King Herod.

The Twelfth Station, mahogany, 18", 1950 This wood carving was done while McGlynn was stationed at St. Monica's parish in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was done for his classmate, Jim McLarney, who was Prior at St. Joseph's Priory in Somerset, Ohio. Tom was very good at wood carving. Although he had never carved marble before he did the marble sculpture of Our Lady of Fatima, he maintaiined that once you knew how to carve, you could carve in any medium. He did, whowever, do two small stone carvings as practice before he began the Fatima Statue.