Throughout his life Calverly did over 250 busts, medallions, tablets, and statues. Some notables include President Washington, President Garfield, and Lafayette Foster, a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, who later served on the Supreme Court. Calverley’s statue of him is on permanent display in the U.S. Capitol. He also did 19th century literature masters like Sir Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell. His most famous is Scottish poet Robert Burns which he did in 1888 for Washington Park in Albany and later Central Park. It garnered the attention of Andrew Carnegie who had a life size bust commissioned for himself and for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.