The reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1913)
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907, Saint-Gaudens, Homer, b. 1880, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York, The Century co. · leaf 230
speaking just as frankly asI always have about your work, and as I wish people todo with me. I think you have not insisted enough onthe nobility and force and power of the manes of thelion and have perhaps insisted a little too much on theape-like character (that is putting it rather strong) ofthe… … A CAKICATIRK LKTTKK KKOM AlCLSTrS SAIN 1-GALlJENSTO JAMES WALL FLNN AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS one looks a little too much like the lions in the menagerieand distinctly the head does not bear the imj)ortanceto the rest of the body=—the overpowering importance—that one generally feels with a lion. . . .…
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 · Sculptors
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