Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I Niu Ioka, i uru a Ward ki te Rōpū o nga Akonga Toi, a, i ako ia i raro i a Augustus St. Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, me Siddons Mowbray. Tata ki te 1898, i haere a Ward ki Paris i reira i waihangahia ai e ia te whakairoiro "Boy and Frog" i whakawhiwhia ki tetahi tohu i te
1904 Te Whakaaturanga o te Ao o St. Louis. I mua i te hokinga ki Denver i te tau 1900, i uru ano a Ward ki tetahi waahanga mo te whakaaturanga i te Society of American Artists i Paris.