Born in Dublin, Ireland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens became one of the more famous American sculptors of the late 19th century and was associated with a period called The Gilded Age. He brought the Beaux... Read full biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens became one of the more famous American sculptors of the late 19th century and was associated with a period called The Gilded Age. He brought the Beaux Arts style to America, as he had studied in Italy and France, where he had had rigorous training... Read full biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens became one of the more famous American sculptors of the late 19th century and was associated with a period called The Gilded Age. He brought the Beaux Arts style to America, as he had studied in Italy and France, where he had had rigorous training which included model classical subjects from plaster casts. A work for which he is particularly known is the monumental statue "Diana," a gilded copper weathervane for the top of the Madison Square... Read full biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens became one of the more famous American sculptors of the late 19th century and was associated with a period called The Gilded Age. He brought the Beaux Arts style to America, as he had studied in Italy and France, where he had had rigorous training which included model classical subjects from plaster casts. A work for which he is particularly known is the monumental statue "Diana," a gilded copper weathervane for the top of the Madison Square Garden Tower in New York City. Thirteen feet high, it was installed in 1894. He came to New York City as an infant and his father became a shoemaker. At age thirteen, Augustus apprenticed to a cameo cutter and then studied art at Cooper Union and the... Read full biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens became one of the more famous American sculptors of the late 19th century and was associated with a period called The Gilded Age. He brought the Beaux Arts style to America, as he had studied in Italy and France, where he had had rigorous training which included model classical subjects from plaster casts. A work for which he is particularly known is the monumental statue "Diana," a gilded copper weathervane for the top of the Madison Square Garden Tower in New York City. Thirteen feet high, it was installed in 1894. He came to New York City as an infant and his father became a shoemaker. At age thirteen, Augustus apprenticed to a cameo cutter and then studied art at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design where he drew from antique casts and worked in clay. In 1867, he enrolled for three years in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (143)
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A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction
80 pages (color)
Return to the Heartland: Rediscovering George Van Millett
2011
Mackle, Lynn
140 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Beyond a Gilded Cage: Recollections of Laura Marquand Walker
2005
Walker, Laura Marquand; Fern K. Meyers (Editor)
223 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Duffy and Dryfhout (essays)
128 pages
The Devil in the White City
2003
Larson, Erik
447 pages
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Gilbert, Alma; Judith Tankard
24 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Cornish Colony: At the Dawn of the New Century
1999
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America
1999
Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello
112 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
1999
Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler
451 pages (color)
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
The Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Gilbert, Alma; James Atkinson
52 pages
Ben Austrian, Artist
1997
Austrian, Geoffrey D
120 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
Art and the Higher Life Painting and Evolutionary Thought*
1996
Pyne, Kathleen
416 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
American Art Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum
1992
Cash, Sarah
59 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1991
University Gallery-Delaware
161 pages (color)
Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings
1991
Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor)
410 pages
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century
1990
Boime, Albert
256 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
112 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Richard York Gallery
48 pages (color)
Iconologia
1988
Baskin, Leonard
219 pages
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914
1988
Scully, Vincent
183 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Cornish Colony: A Circle of Friends
1985
Dryfhout, John
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Arts of the American Renaissance (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
123 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
A Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
New Hampshire, U of
138 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Uncommon Clay The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens
1985
Wilkinson, Burke
460 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
The Art of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
65 pages (color)
100 Years of Collecting in America The Story of Sotheby Park Bernet
1984
Norton, Thomas E
240 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1982
Dryfhout, John H
356 pages
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1980
Hibbard, Howard
592 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1978
Dryfhout, John
0 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
The American Eagle in Art & Design 321 Examples
1978
Hornung, Clarence Pearson
113 pages (color)
Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection
1978
Spencer Museum of Art
168 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the United States: Book of Readings with Illustrations
1976
Fundaburk, Emma Lila
453 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Milwaukee Art Center
186 pages (color)
The First Pose 1876: Turning Point in American Art
1976
Sellin, David
72 pages
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward)
284 pages
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
The Art of America in the Gilded Age
1974
Glubok, Shirley
49 pages
Bronzes of the American West
1973
Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)
429 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Barry Faulkner: Sketches from an Artist's Life
1973
Faulkner, Barry
208 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Trail-Blazers of American Art
1971
Irwin, Grace
228 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970
Lynes, Russell
514 pages
Personalities in American Art
1970
Paris, William Francklyn
112 pages (color)
The Circle of Henry Adams: Art & Artist
1970
Scheyer, Ernst
309 pages
Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums
1969
Brockton Art Center
48 pages
Augustus Saint-Gaudens The Portrait Reliefs (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Dryfhout, John H
150 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
The Way of Western Art 1776-1914
1969
Richardson, Edgar P
204 pages
Saint Gaudens and the Gilded Era
1969
Tharp, Louise Hall
419 pages
Augustus and the Gilded Era
1969
Tharp, Louise Hall
0 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
The Daring Young Men The Story of the American Pre-Raphaelites
1953
Dickason, David Howard
304 pages
Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Metropolitan Museum of Art
170 pages
Art Through the Ages (Third Edition)
1948
Gardner, Helen
851 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934)
1934
Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr
110 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932 (Exhibition catalog)
1932
Museum of Modern Art
135 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Art in America
1929
La Follette, Suzanne
361 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
