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The Puritan. The Puritan is a bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Springfield, Massachusetts, which became so popular that it was reproduced for over 20 other cities, museums, universities, and private collectors around the world, and later became an official symbol of the city, emblazoned on its municipal flag. [1]
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
In 1881, Chester W. Chapin, a railroad tycoon, congressman and Chapin descendant, commissioned master sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens to produce a work memorializing his ancestor. [14] The sculpture, most commonly known as The Puritan, is currently sited in Springfield's Merrick Park. It emphasizes the piety, and perhaps moral rigidity, of the ...
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire, preserves the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), one of America's foremost sculptors. The house and grounds of the National Historic Site served as his summer residence from 1885 to 1897, his permanent home from 1900 until his death in 1907, and ...
English: The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. This artwork is in the public domain because the artist died more than 100 years ago. This artwork is in the public domain because the artist died more than 100 years ago.
The Puritan, an 1887 statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Background. ... History of the Puritans under King Charles I; 1649–1688.
A perspective sketch of Stearns Square by Stanford White, showing The Puritan's original placement along with the bench, trails, and Turtle Fountain.. Augustus Saint Gaudens' The Puritan and Stanford White's planned landscape environment were meant to aid in the transformation of northern Metro Center Springfield from a neighborhood of immigrant housing into a grandiose district, with a state ...
History of the Puritans under King Charles I; 1649–1688. ... The Puritan, an 1887 statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Background.