The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Author: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 428
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Author: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John H. Dryfhout
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781584657095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated catalogue raisonné of one of the most important figures in American sculpture.
Author: Henry J. Duffy
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), called the American Michelangelo, has often been compared to the magnificent works of the Renaissance. As an advocate of new ideas and a new approach to sculpture, Saint-Gaudens played a preeminent role in developing America's cultural life and revitalizing the art of sculpture in the modern age. (1861-65), when numerous monuments were commissioned to commemorate the national crisis and subsequent unification. In addition, the amassing of private fortunes during the country's unprecedented economic and financial growth led to an interest in sculpture for personal collections. Saint-Gaudens contributed works of both types. His Shaw Memorial (1897), commemorating the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, the first U.S. Army unit of African Americans, and his Lincoln Monument (1887) are among the most moving of the nation's Civil War monuments, while his Adams Memorial (1891) is one of the most evocative of his privately commissioned works. France and spent eight years in Europe, where he found a freer and bolder form of artistic expression. On his return to the United States in 1875, he used his European training to create a new American style incorporating simplicity of subject, realism of form, and strength of emotion. In addition to his monuments, his works also included interior decoration for some of the great houses of the Gilded Age, portrait reliefs, and medals and U.S. coinage. his and the subsequent generation of American sculptors through his teaching and his lead in establishing organizations for the support and training of American artists, including the Society of American Artists. His legacy, as both artist and educator, is nothing less than the shaping of American culture.
Author: Charles Lewis Hind
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 168
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Homer Saint-Gaudens
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe title page includes a mounted and signed portion of a Saint-Gaudens check. Includes a letter, mounted to the flyleaf: to Mr. David F. Nelson, from the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial.
Author: Ivy Press
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2006-06
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781599670584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Burke Wilkinson
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590910542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguably the greatest American sculptor, Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848-1907) left a rich legacy of artwork including public monuments such as the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Sherman Monument in Manhattan and perhaps his greatest work, the Shaw Memorial in Boston, honoring Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the famed Massachusetts 54th Regiment of African American volunteers. Saint Gaudens also created wonderful portrait reliefs and medals and is especially known for his design of the 1907 twenty-dollar gold piece, considered America's most beautiful coin. This eminently readable biography, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1986, provides a full and accurate portrait of the man and his times. Solid, well-researched and absorbing, The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens offers a lively depiction of this talented man who rose from humble origins to success as one of the most important of American artists.
Author: Kathryn Greenthal
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0870994379
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Author: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Published: 1976
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ISBN-13: 9780824022471
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