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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 ...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) 1886. Diana. Karl Theodore Bitter (American (born Austria), Vienna 1867–1915 New York)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) 1888, cast 1910. United States Twenty-dollar Gold Piece. Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American ...
Saint-Gaudens’s three years of study in Paris came to an abrupt end with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. He left for Rome in late 1870 and soon began Hiawatha, his first full-length statue, inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855).
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), a sculptor of French-Irish immigrant roots, was the most esteemed American sculptor of his day. Over four decades, he lived in New York, Paris, Rome, and Cornish, New Hampshire.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848. The son of a shoemaker, Saint-Gaudens moved with his family to New York before he was one. Growing up in the city, he became interested ...
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.
