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Homer Shiff Saint-Gaudens (1880–1953) was the only child of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his wife Augusta (née Homer). He served as the Director of the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute and was a founder of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, a non-profit organization that maintained the family home as a museum before its donation to the National Park Service in 1965.
After attending Harvard College, Homer Saint-Gaudens became a writer, art critic, and theatrical manager. In 1922, he began serving as the director of the Carnegie Institute. He is most recognized for his contributions to the American modern art scene through the development of the museum’s international annual exhibitions.
The museum’s second director, Homer Saint-Gaudens, focused the International on representation of current art movements prominent from the 1920s through to the 1940s. From 1940 until 1949, the show featured paintings, primarily by American artists with some exceptions, due to World War II and its aftermath in Europe.
Title: Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens. Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) Carver: Carved by Piccirilli Brothers Marble Carving Studio (active 1893–1946) Date: 1882; carved 1906–7. Culture: American. Medium: Marble. Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 10 3/8 in., 66lb.
Homer Saint-Gaudens [1] Augustus Saint-Gaudens ( / ˌseɪntˈɡɔːdənz /; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an Irish and American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. [2] Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City.
31 de jul. de 2015 · He's Homer Saint-Gaudens (1880–1958), ten-year-old son of the eminent American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907). Titled Portrait of a Boy (Homer Saint-Gaudens and his Mother), the canvas is ostensibly a likeness of Homer, with his mother, Augusta (1848–1926), relegated to the shadowy background.
Homer Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958) wanted to believe that "aesthetics should be divorced and remain divorced from all the turmoil of the rest of the world." Yet as director of the Carnegie Institute's Department of Fine Arts and organizer of the International Exhibition from 1922 to 1950 Saint-Gaudens knew well that the opposite was true.
