Uncommon Clay: The Life And Works Of Augustus Saint Gaudens
Wilkinson, Burke
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985)
Augustus Saint Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland, of a French father & Irish mother, in 1848. He died in 1907 in Cornish, N.H. How the son of a French cobbler became one of America's greatest public sculptors is narrated in this thoroughly researched biography. Photographs of some of his best known sculptures are included.
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