Augustus Saint-Gaudens August 14, 2009

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum's collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre, from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to reductions after stirring public monuments for East Coast cities. Through the lens of the Museum's unparalleled holdings as well as some related loans, this exhibition will offer a reappraisal of Saint-Gaudens's groundbreaking role in the history of late 19th-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement.