Download or read book The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Burke Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the greatest American sculptor, Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848-1907) left a rich legacy of artwork including public monuments such as the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Sherman Monument in Manhattan and perhaps his greatest work, the Shaw Memorial in Boston, honoring Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the famed Massachusetts 54th Regiment of African American volunteers. Saint Gaudens also created wonderful portrait reliefs and medals and is especially known for his design of the 1907 twenty-dollar gold piece, considered America's most beautiful coin. This eminently readable biography, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1986, provides a full and accurate portrait of the man and his times. Solid, well-researched and absorbing, The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens offers a lively depiction of this talented man who rose from humble origins to success as one of the most important of American artists.

Download or read book The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Work of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by John H. Dryfhout and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated catalogue raisonné of one of the most important figures in American sculpture.

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Charles Lewis Hind and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Henry J. Duffy and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), called the American Michelangelo, has often been compared to the magnificent works of the Renaissance. As an advocate of new ideas and a new approach to sculpture, Saint-Gaudens played a preeminent role in developing America's cultural life and revitalizing the art of sculpture in the modern age. (1861-65), when numerous monuments were commissioned to commemorate the national crisis and subsequent unification. In addition, the amassing of private fortunes during the country's unprecedented economic and financial growth led to an interest in sculpture for personal collections. Saint-Gaudens contributed works of both types. His Shaw Memorial (1897), commemorating the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, the first U.S. Army unit of African Americans, and his Lincoln Monument (1887) are among the most moving of the nation's Civil War monuments, while his Adams Memorial (1891) is one of the most evocative of his privately commissioned works. France and spent eight years in Europe, where he found a freer and bolder form of artistic expression. On his return to the United States in 1875, he used his European training to create a new American style incorporating simplicity of subject, realism of form, and strength of emotion. In addition to his monuments, his works also included interior decoration for some of the great houses of the Gilded Age, portrait reliefs, and medals and U.S. coinage. his and the subsequent generation of American sculptors through his teaching and his lead in establishing organizations for the support and training of American artists, including the Society of American Artists. His legacy, as both artist and educator, is nothing less than the shaping of American culture.

Download or read book The Coinage of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Homer Saint-Gaudens and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title page includes a mounted and signed portion of a Saint-Gaudens check. Includes a letter, mounted to the flyleaf: to Mr. David F. Nelson, from the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial.

Download or read book The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre—from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to reductions after public monuments for East Coast cities. Through the lens of the Museum's unparalleled holdings as well as some related loans, this exhibition offers a reappraisal of Saint-Gaudens's groundbreaking role in the history of late nineteenth-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement."--The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens Master Sculptor written by Kathryn Greenthal and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography: p. 171.

Download or read book Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Carnegie Institute. Department of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibtion of the Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Carnegie Institute and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Saint Gaudens 1907 written by Royal Cortissoz and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book Catalogue of a memorial exhibit of the works of Augustus Saint Gaudens written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Davida written by Karen Ingalls and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the love affair between Davida Johnson Clark and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. She was his model for such works as Diana, Amor Caritas and other sculptures. From the 1880's to the early 1900's he was America's premier and most famous sculptor. They had one son. Though they never married they shared unconditional love for one another for more than twenty years. Little is known about Davida so the author has fictionalized her biographical information except the works for which she posed.