Old Boston, new ways Nov 15, 2009
There is a wide array of newspapers and artwork, too, with paintings by Gilbert Stuart and John Singer Sargent and sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Houdon. The library had several quarters before moving to its current home in 1849 at 10 1/2 Beacon St., a neo-Palladian building overlooking the Old Granary Burying Grounds. (Boston Globe)
He Broke the Mold Nov 5, 2009
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatest public sculptor ... Click to read a slide-show essay about sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens ... You don't see great public sculptors like Augustus Saint-Gaudens anymore. (Slate)
The road to real Oct 11, 2009
It s the former home, studio, and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor who created the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston s Beacon Street and the Seated Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago s Grant Park. It s hard to believe that a National Historic Site is hidden out here, but the place is part of the larger find of the Connecticut River Byway (this part of it is also called the Maxfield Parish Highway, which follows the river up to the far reaches of Coos County, passing... (Boston Globe)
The hardest job there is Oct 4, 2009
Over the other shoulder is a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln by the Gilded Age sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whom Mr. Obama no doubt knows as the artist behind the Shaw Memorial, the unforgettable tribute to the black infantry unit that fought for the Union in the Civil War. This is Mr. Obama's moment, and it is Mr. Obama's White House. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Selma Koss Holtz; collector with a contagious love of art, people Sep 24, 2009
It also included bronzes by Augustus Saint Gaudens, Jo Davidson, and Kahlil Gibran, he said, along with etchings by Howard Pyle and Rockwell Kent. Her passion for art was contagious, said J. Owen Todd, a Boston lawyer and former superior court judge, a longtime friend. (Boston Globe)
High and Low Relief Aug 17, 2009
Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : The New Yorker ... Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Met ... Augustus Saint-Gaudens s gilded bronze equestrian statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman, at the southeast corner of Central Park, across from the Plaza, is my favorite public art work in New York. (New Yorker)
Hylie Pappenheimer, 86, violin teacher in Cambridge Jun 5, 2009
Mrs. Pappenheimer's grandparents and uncle were immortalized in a sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. "It was a very well-educated family, poetic and into the arts," Will said. (Boston Globe)
CAN'T STAND THE HEAT? TRY SOME SUMMER ART May 15, 2009
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was the go-to guy for East Coast movers and shakers looking to commission important monuments. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Norwell column: Locals answer the call in the Civil War, 1861-65, Part II Apr 18, 2009
They have achieved immortality, however, with Augustus Saint Gaudens bas-relief sculpture that was erected on Beacon Hill. In a paper on Norwell history written by Joseph Foster Merritt in 1933, he cites how South Scituate s Edward Southworth, an officer in another black regiment, would have been in grave danger if captured by the Confederates for serving as an officer in a black regiment. (Norwell Mariner, MA)
NH quarter likely to feature Mt. Washington hotel Mar 9, 2009
Alternates were the Robert Frost farm in Derry, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens site in Cornish and the John W. Weeks home in Lancaster. The quarters will be released starting next year, in the order in which the sites became national sites. (Concord Monitor)
NH sculptor's Lincoln cast could be restored Feb 24, 2009
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was commissioned in the 1880s to sculpt "The Standing Lincoln" for Chicago's Lincoln Park. The 23-piece cast he used ended up in a warehouse at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, his former home, studios and gardens in New Hampshire. (Concord Monitor)
