Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Paris, 1898.

July 13, 2007
This symposium and world firm premiere marked the one hundredth anniversary of the death of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907).  

Lectures:

Kathryn Greenthal, art historian and curator, Boston, Engaging the Viewer: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Contemporary Sculpture

Jennifer Hardin, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Diana of 1891-93: Critical and Public Response to a Singular American Nude

David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor Art, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, War Relief: Saint-Gaudens's Shaw Memorial on Boston Common and the Battle Over Civil War Memory

Thayer Tolles, Associate Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Afterlife of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1907-1919

Q&A session
Panel moderators: Barbara J. MacAdam, Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art, Hood Museum of Art, and Henry Duffy, Curator, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site