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By Louis Saint-Gaudens
Category: Sculpture

About

The symbolic statue is the companion to Daniel Chester French’s Sculpture. The pieces were originally produced in plaster. The artists were commissioned to reproduce them in marble to occupy permanently the same location as they had during the 1904 World’s Fair, with Sculpture on the west and Painting on the east.

Dimensions: 9′ x 8′ x 8′
Year Completed: 1904
Material: Marble
Owner: City of St. Louis/St. Louis Art Museum
Donor: Louisiana Exposition Company


About the artist:

Louis Saint-Gaudens

1854-1913

Saint-Gaudens trained as a cameo cutter before joining his elder brother, the famous artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in his Paris studio. They moved the studio to New York in 1898, and Louis soon went on his own. Saint-Gaudens died before the end of the St. Louis project and his marble figure was completed by his wife, Annetta Johnson.