Cornish Celebration Presentation Plaquette

細節

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
Cornish Celebration Presentation Plaquette
inscribed with names of the participants in the Masque of Ours: The Gods and the Golden Bowl, and inscribed 'AMOR VINCIT' and 'In Affectionate Remembrance of the Celebration of June XXIII MCMV/Augusta and Augustus Saint Gaudens' (lower center)--stamped with foundry mark 'Gorham Co.' (on the side)
bronze with brown patina
32½ x 19½ in. (82.6 x 49.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1905.

來源

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.

出版

J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1982, pp. 276-7, illustration of another example.

拍品專文

Considered one of the most prominent American art colonies, the Cornish Art Colony flourished from 1890 to the mid 1920's and featured some of the most established and celebrated artists at the turn of the of the century, including four members of 'The Ten.' Among the colony's most renowned artists were sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) and Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966). The colony was made up of artists, sculptors, writers and politicians and was loosely situated in three contiguous towns: Plainfield and Cornish, New Hampshire and Windsor, Vermont. This colony also attracted a number of important American women artists such as Annetta St. Gaudens, Maria Dewing, Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Frances Grimes, Florence Scovel Shinn and Marguerite Zorach.

The present bronze is the model for the presentation plaquette designed by Saint-Gaudens to commemorate the summer theatrical which celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his family's residence in Cornish, New Hampshire. Among the participants in the production were Maxfield Parrish, Kenyon Cox, Hebert Adams, Charles Platt, Everett Shinn and other painters, sculptors, writers, architects and their families. Another example of this model is in the collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire.