Slightly off-topic. The works of St. Gaudens...

Weiss

We all know he was the man behind two of the most beautiful circulating US coin designs: the $10 Indian and the $20, uhh, well, St. Gaudens.

But here are a couple of his other works:

Plaster model for a one cent coin, circa 1905. Looks more than a little like De Francisci's Peace design, no?


Probably his most famous non-coin design. The Shaw memorial:



Detail:


And my personal favorite, the Adams memorial (Rock Creek cemetary, Washington D.C.)




Augustus St. Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH

Stuart

I will forever be indebted to Augustus Saint Gaudens for designing the $20 Saint, the several of which I have purchased have provided me with many hours of wonderful numismatic enjoyment.

It is truly one of the most beautiful coins ever minted...

aem4162

*sigh*
*swoon*

njcoincrank

It looks as if someone went to Cornish recently.

Great trip. Highly recommed it.

Breath-taking.

njcoincrank

Clankeye

This isn't off topic at all. If a thread like this doesn't belong here nothing does.

Thanks for sharing the pics. Truly magnificent work.

Clankeye

FatMan

Next time in the NH area I will definitely check it out.


<< <i>Plaster model for a one cent coin, circa 1905. Looks more than a little like De Francisci's Peace design, no? >>

Wow, very similar. Always heard De Francisici used his wife as his model. Maybe St Gaudens dated his wife's mother.

Gemini

For those that never saw the Civil War movie "Glory" there were some really nice close ups of the Robert Shaw Memorial in the credits at the end of the movie.
Also was great CW movie may I add.

RWB

A copy of the Saint-Gaudens portrait bust known as "Nike Erini" (Victory Peace) was loaned to de Francisci by Jim Fraser so that deFrancisci could improve the Liberty portrait on his Peace dollar design. S-G had used the same portrait on his one-cent design of 1906, both without and with Indian headdress. The headdress version was assigned to the $10 gold coin by Rooosevelt in May 1907, and S-G's cent was scrapped. See: RAC 1905-1908 Chapter 3 and also pp.209-216.

DUIGUY

Gaudens also designed the obverse of this 1893 Colubuus

HighRelief

Isn't there a statue in New York Central Park that he did that was the model for Miss Liberty on the Saint?

BECOKA

His work is incredible. While I admire the design, I have some how gotten tired of the double eagle with one exception. I will never get tired of the high relief version. I believe this is what Gaudens may have envisioned and may be disappointed with the flatness of the low relief in comparison.