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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 ...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (/ ˌ s eɪ n t ˈ ɡ ɔː d ə n z /; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an Irish and American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. [2] Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further ...
The memorial is credited to sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frances Grimes, and architects Stanford White and Charles Follen McKim.It was commissioned in 1893 by the church congregation for $80,000 and completed from 1907–1910. [1]
The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment), is the first movement of Three Places in New England (1903-1929), by Charles Ives. Robert Lowell's famous poem "For the Union Dead", the title poem of a 1964 collection by the same name, refers to the monument in the poem. The first edition of the book featured a drawing ...
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (which he called The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but which was often called in the newspapers "Grief").
One site, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, is categorized as a National Historical Park. The National Historic Landmark program is operated in the United States under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of criteria of national ...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpted his interpretation of the famed Iroquois leader between 1872 and 1874. He was inspired to create the work by The Song of Hiawatha, an 1855 epic poem by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Crerar died in 1889, and in 1897 Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to sculpt the statue. [7] In 1901 the Chicago city council approved an act for the construction of the John Crerar Library in Grant Park on a site bounded by Michigan Avenue, the Illinois Central railroad tracks, Monroe Avenue and Madison Street (the site of the Crown Fountain ...