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Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
The Puritan. The Puritan is a bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Springfield, Massachusetts, which became so popular that it was reproduced for over 20 other cities, museums, universities, and private collectors around the world, and later became an official symbol of the city, emblazoned on its municipal flag. [1]
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park. 2016 Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Chicago Lincoln: Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln Square. 1956 Avard Fairbanks: Civil War Monument: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge Common. Monument, 1870 Statue, 1887 Monument, Cyrus Cobb and Darius Cobb Statue, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Lincoln Monument: Dixon, Illinois ...
Hettie Anderson (born Harriette Eugenia Dickerson; 1873 – January 10, 1938) was an African-American art model and muse who posed for American sculptors and painters including Daniel Chester French, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John La Farge, Anders Zorn, Bela Pratt, Adolph Alexander Weinman, and Evelyn Beatrice Longman. [1]
The architect Charles Follen McKim and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens decided in 1902 to install an equestrian statue of U.S. Army general William Tecumseh Sherman in Central Park. [4] Several sites had been considered, including Sherman Square on the Upper West Side ; the median of Riverside Drive just south of Grant's Tomb ; another site on ...
The Indian Head eagle is a $10 gold piece or eagle that was struck by the United States Mint continuously from 1907 until 1916, and then irregularly until 1933. The obverse and reverse were designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, originally commissioned for use on other denominations.
The centerpiece of the plaza's northern half, carved out of the southeastern corner of Central Park, is the equestrian statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The principal feature of the plaza's southern half is the Pulitzer Fountain, topped with a bronze statue of the Roman goddess Pomona sculpted by Karl ...
Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and completed by his workshop in 1908, it was intended by the artist to evoke the loneliness and burden of command felt by Lincoln during his presidency. [2] [3] [4] The sculpture depicts a contemplative Lincoln seated in a chair, and gazing down into the distance.