Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance.
Saint-Gaudens in 1905
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
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
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The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens opposite 24 Beacon Street, Boston. It depicts Colonel Robert Gould
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
…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…
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial after the completed restoration project in 2021.
Inscription on the back of the Memorial
Restored plaster cast at the National Gallery of Art