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Saint-Gaudens

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

noun

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


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Here, he realizes a triptych of vivid musical postcards recalling the American past: “The Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common,” a hazy conjuring of Civil War ghosts embodied by a memorial to Col.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

The main reason Washingtonians might have heard of Rock Creek Cemetery: a celebrated sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2018

First of all, by nature and by training, Saint-Gaudens was a designer, and exquisiteness of design was the quality he most consciously strove for—the quality on which he expended his unresting, unending, persevering toil.

From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox

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