DOI issue:
The International Studio February, 1908)
DOI article:Williams, Talcott: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28253#0487
A ugustus Saint-Gaudens
Copyright, 1906, by Detroit Publishing Company
DEACON SAMUEL CHAPIN (“THE PURITAN”), SPRINGFIELD, MASS. BY SAINT-GAUDENS
vive, there can be no moment in all the far future
when men and women shall not find, in its presence,
the last word and work of art when its word un-
locks the heart and its work utters the ageless,
unanswered riddle of the mind.
It was as a complement to this that the Angel of
Purity was modeled. As with the figures of Puri-
tan and Pilgrim, it grew under Saint-Gaudens’s
hands. It was first modeled and it is usually pre-
sented as Amor Caritas. In the Morgan monu-
ment, in Newport and elsewhere it appeared. In
bronze, it was selected by Saint-Gaudens to stand
for his work in the Luxemburg. Later, for a fresh
sorrow, it was remodeled, subtly changed, the ex-
pression given a new and celestial radiance, the
girdle of flowers touched with the buds of maiden-
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Copyright, 1906, by Detroit Publishing Company
DEACON SAMUEL CHAPIN (“THE PURITAN”), SPRINGFIELD, MASS. BY SAINT-GAUDENS
vive, there can be no moment in all the far future
when men and women shall not find, in its presence,
the last word and work of art when its word un-
locks the heart and its work utters the ageless,
unanswered riddle of the mind.
It was as a complement to this that the Angel of
Purity was modeled. As with the figures of Puri-
tan and Pilgrim, it grew under Saint-Gaudens’s
hands. It was first modeled and it is usually pre-
sented as Amor Caritas. In the Morgan monu-
ment, in Newport and elsewhere it appeared. In
bronze, it was selected by Saint-Gaudens to stand
for his work in the Luxemburg. Later, for a fresh
sorrow, it was remodeled, subtly changed, the ex-
pression given a new and celestial radiance, the
girdle of flowers touched with the buds of maiden-
CXXXIII