Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus( 1848–1907),Irish-born American sculptor, whose style shows the changing direction of American sculpture, in its fusion of exalted realism with more animated poses, and its broken picturesque surfaces, as opposed to the cold, formal ideal of Italian neoclassicism, practiced by such members of the previous generation as Hiram Powers and Horatio Greenough. The general high standard of his work had an important influence on monument sculpture in the U.S. The dignified and simple Lincoln (1887) in Chicago, with its moderate impressionistic treatment of surface; the grave, thoughtful Adams Memorial (1891) in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., a monument to the wife of his friend Henry Adams, which Adams called “The Peace of God”; the Shaw Memorial (opposite the State House, Boston) in high relief; and his many splendid bas-reliefs, which include the bronze tablet of Stevenson in Edinburgh,...
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