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The Gilded Age in American Art
Evaluation | Curriculum Connections | Resources | Tours 1876 - 1917
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
United States, 1848-1907
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887
bronze
30.5 cm
Museum purchase: State funds, 1980.0063
United States, 1848-1907
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887
bronze
30.5 cm
Museum purchase: State funds, 1980.0063
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was the most famous sculptor of the era and best known for his monumental public sculptures and naturalistic relief portraits.
This bronze relief depicts the Scottish writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94.) The relief is dedicated to Stevenson and inscribed with three stanzas from his 1887 poem "Underwoods."
