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Saint-Gaudens

American  
[seynt-gawd-nz] / seɪntˈgɔd nz /

noun

  1. Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.


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For the 250th anniversary of Springfield’s founding, Saint-Gaudens was commissioned to create a monument — not to Pynchon, but to Chapin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

Stage 17 to Peyragudes was the shortest road stage of the tour but one of the most demanding, with the 129.7km route from Saint-Gaudens containing four categorised climbs in the final 76km.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2022

On one side is a circular granite bench, facing a statue of a mysterious shrouded figure, known only as “Grief,” sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2019

Among many other works, Saint-Gaudens did the gleaming statue of Gen. William T. Sherman in Grand Army Plaza, at the Fifth Avenue end of Central Park.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2018

Mr. Saint-Gaudens is now at work on a statue of Richard Robert Randall, the founder of the Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island, in front of which institution this statue is to be placed.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

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