Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American artist (1848-1907) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 59
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study.
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Portrait of Augustus's wife Augusta and their son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, by John Singer Sargent, 1890
Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (1891)
Diana (1892-93). Bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Amor Caritas, bronze (1898), Cleveland Museum of Art
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887)
The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston Common (1884-1897)
Parnell Memorial, DublinAbout this person
After he returned to New York City, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York's Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan.
