biography
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Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
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pronunciation:
[saynt gawdnz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1907)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Dublin, Ireland. His parents emigrated to New York City in 1848. He was apprenticed to cameo cutters (1861–7), studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design (1864–7), then in Paris (1867), and established a studio in Rome (1870–2). He travelled throughout his life, but set up a studio in New York City (1875–97) and maintained a summer home and studio, Aspet, in Cornish, NH, later to become a national historic site (1964). Considered the major American sculptor in the beaux-arts style, he created many commissioned works for John La Farge, Stanford White, and Charles McKim, among others, and was a founder of the Society of American Artists (1877). He is honoured for his coin designs, and among his many fine works is ‘Grief’, his sculpture for the grave site of Mrs Henry Adams (1886–91), the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (1884–97, a commemoration of Shaw's leadership of a black Civil War division), and the equestrian sculpture of General Sherman (1897–1903). |
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