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Augustus Saint Gaudens

Saint Gaudens’ Celtic Vision

By Joe Zentner

September October 1996

May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment

If there was such a thing as an American Renaissance, Augustus Saint Gaudens embodied it in sculpture. TO Saint Gaudens, an artist is an interpreter of beauty in the world. A work of art is the artist's vision of a subject, colored by the light of imagination and expressed in symbols which convey what he or she has seen, in terms that will make others see and believe and revel … [Read more...] about Saint Gaudens’ Celtic Vision

Saint-Gauden’s Celtic Vision

By Joe Zentner
IA Newsletter, August 3, 2024

August 2, 2024 by 1 Comment

The most important American sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century was born in Ireland. If there was such a thing as an American Renaissance, Augustus Saint-Gaudens embodied it in sculpture. To Saint-Gaudens, an artist is an interpreter of beauty in the world. A work of art is the artist's vision of a subject, colored by the light of imagination and expressed in … [Read more...] about Saint-Gauden’s Celtic Vision

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