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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire, preserves the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), one of America's foremost sculptors. The house and grounds of the National Historic Site served as his summer residence from 1885 to 1897, his permanent home from 1900 until his death in 1907, and ...
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 ...
One site, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, is categorized as a National Historical Park. The National Historic Landmark program is operated in the United States under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of criteria of national ...
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (which he called The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but which was often called in the newspapers "Grief").
The central figure of the Cornish Colony was Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Beginning around 1885, Augustus attracted a summer colony of artists that grew into a single extended social network. Some were related, some were friends, some were promising students from the Art Students League of New York that Saint-Gaudens had co-founded, and some were ...
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 ...
Saint-Gaudens would later draw upon this new model in his 1903 memorial to William T. Sherman in New York's Central Park. [2] Each of the twenty-three Black soldiers is rendered with distinct, individualistic features that were based on those of live models hired by Saint-Gaudens. [2]
General John Logan Memorial, also known as the John Alexander Logan Monument, [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture commemorating John A. Logan by sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor, in a setting by architect Stanford White.