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Augustus Saint-Gaudens & the American monument

by Eric Gibson

On “Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1879–80), courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Eric Gibson is the Leisure & Arts Features Editor of The Wall Street Journal.


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 October 2009, on page 42

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