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SAINT-GAUDENS, AUGUSTUS (1848-1907), American sculptor, was born in Dublin, Ireland, of a French father (a shoemaker by trade), and an Irish mother, Mary McGuinness, on the 1st of March 1848, and was taken to America in infancy. He was apprenticed to a cameo-cutter, studying in the schools of the Cooper Union (1861) and the National Academy of Design, New York (1865-1866). His earliest work in ...
The Saint-Gaudens exhibition program highlights innovative contemporary artists alongside the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who was forward-thinking in his own era. Learn more about our Exhibitions program.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Raised in New York City, he traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, b 1848- d 1907. Web site. 139 Saint Gaudens Rd., Cornish, NH 03745 - view on Google Maps. 603-675-2175.
Jan 16, 2023 · In 1873, Saint-Gaudens met Augusta Homer of Roxbury, Massachusetts while living in Rome. They were married four years later and, in 1880, Augusta Homer Saint-Gaudens gave birth to Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens. In the early 1880s, Augustus Saint-Gaudens began a relationship with the model Albertina Hultgren who became known as Davida Johnson Clark.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. By Kenyon Cox. March 1908 Issue. AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the first day of March, 1848, almost precisely sixty years ago, but was brought to ...
To late nineteenth-century Americans Augustus Saint-Gaudens was well known as a sculptor of public monuments rendered in a naturalistic, vital, and thoroughly modern aesthetic. A son of French-Irish immigrants, Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) embodied the American success story, rising from humble Lower East Side circumstances to become the finest American sculptor of his day, attracting ...
