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DiaporamaStanley Matthews and His Wife Mary
1904
82.0 x 119.0 cm
An apprenticeship with cameo-carvers as a teenager fostered Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s mastery of portrait relief sculpture. Among the first American sculptors to choose study in France rather than Italy, Saint-Gaudens traveled in 1870 to Paris, the center of a revival of bronze sculpture and Renaissance naturalism. He won admission to the École des Beaux-Arts. During a trip to Italy he was deeply impressed by early Renaissance art. Saint-Gaudens’s return to New York in 1872 heralded a turning point in American sculpture: the previous generation of sculptors had lived as expatriates. Saint-Gaudens became the most influential sculptor in America in the Beaux-Arts style. His best-known monumental commissions include memorials to Generals Robert Gould Shaw and William Tecumseh Sherman.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 – 1907)
Discover Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), a leading American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts era, renowned for Civil War monuments like the Shaw Memorial & iconic coin designs.
About this artwork
- Title: Stanley Matthews and His Wife Mary
- Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Year: 1904
- Original dimensions: 82.0 x 119.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
- Perceived brightness: deep_shadow
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