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Article: Daniel Chester French and the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.(New York Metropolitan Museum)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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In 1905, two years before the death of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Metropolitan Museum of Art possessed only one minor work by the country's most gifted sculptor. This was the George Washington inaugural centennial medal of 1889, two examples of which were donated to the museum m 1890 by Henry G. Marquand (1819-1902), then the president of the museum. [1] The early absence of Saint-Gaudens's sculpture in the collection may be attributed to the museum's late nineteenth-century policy of furthering the acquisition of works by living artists through gift rather than purchase. It was certainly not for lack of contact between the museum and Saint-Gaudens.
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Dictionary definition: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
The Oxford Dictionary of Art;
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...Saint-Gaudens, Augustus ( b Dublin, 1 Mar. 1848 ... began his career as a cameo cutter in New York, then studied for three years in Paris ... retained this throughout his life. Saint-Gaudens had great energy and he produced a large ...
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