The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens

by Burke Wilkinson

Publisher: Eastern National Park and Monument Associatio

Written in English

Published: May 28, 2006 Pages: 484 Downloads: 276

Subjects:

Artists, Architects, Photographers,
Individual Artist,
Biography & Autobiography,
Biography / Autobiography,
Biography/Autobiography

The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	484
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL8850722M
ISBN 10	1590910540
ISBN 10	9781590910542
OCLC/WorldCa	156848896

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Wilkinson works through Saint Gaudens apparently complicated personal life, his career as an artist, and the creation of his major (and many minor) works. Considerable narrative is devoted to discussing the major works such as the Farragut Statue, the Shaw Memorial, the Adams Memorial, and by: 1.

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Written By: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, (born March 1,Dublin, Ireland—died Aug. 3,Cornish, New Hampshire, U.S.), generally acknowledged to be the foremost American sculptor of the late 19th century, noted for his evocative memorial statues and for the subtle modeling of his low reliefs.

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens (; March 1, – August 3, ) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance".Raised in New York City, he traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study, and then returned to New York, where he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil.

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University Press of New England, Large Softcover. Very Good. Corners lightly bumped. Large Softcover. xii, pp. This is the most complete compendium ever attempted of the life and work of Augustus St-Gaudens. Life and career. Born in New York City to a French-born father, Bernard Paul Ernest Saint-Gaudens, and an Irish-born mother, Mary McGuiness, Louis received his early training as a cameo cutter from his brother, who later assisted him in beginning his art studies in he and his brother Augustus moved to Paris where they shared a studio and attended the École des Beaux-Arts.

Saint-Gaudens is rightly regarded as the greatest sculptor produced by America, and his work had a most powerful influence on art in the United States. In he married Augusta F. Homer and left a son, Homer Saint-Gaudens. His brother Louis, also a sculptor, assisted Augustus Saint-Gaudens in some of his works.

Father: Bernard P.E. Saint-GaudensBorn: Books About New Hampshire: Uncommon Clay: The Life And Works Of Augustus Saint Gaudens Wilkinson, Burke (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ) Augustus Saint Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland, of a French father & Irish mother, in He died in in Cornish, N.H.Samuel Chapin (bp October 8, – Novem ) was a prominent early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts.

He served the town as selectman, magistrate and deacon (in the Massachusetts Bay Colony there was little separation between the church and government). Chapin is best known today as the subject of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture entitled Deacon Samuel Chapin (also known .