Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I New York, i uru a Ward ki te Rōpū o te Akonga Toi me te ako 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 hangaia ai e ia te whakairoiro "Boy and Frog" i whakawhiwhia ki tetahi mētara i te 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair
He aha? 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.