Lectures, Tours, Events
Latrobe Society Event: Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday, July 14, 2009; 4:00 p.m.
Thayer Tolles, Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, leads a private tour of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre—from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to reductions after public monuments for East Coast cities. Through the lens of the Museum’s unparalleled holdings as well as some related loans, this exhibition offers a reappraisal of Saint-Gaudens’s groundbreaking role in the history of late nineteenth-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement.
Please note that this event is only open to Latrobe Society Members. If you are interested in becoming a Latrobe Society Member, or to learn more about the program, please contact Sara Durkacs, Director of Membership at (212) 730-9646, ext. 106.