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418
“lamentably deficient in good sense”:
Robert Cassatt to Alexander Cassatt, July 18, 1883, Archives of American Art.

418
“She is dreadfully headstrong.…”:
Ibid., August 20, 1883, Archives of American Art.

419
“and the constant anxiety”:
Mary Cassatt to Alexander Cassatt, January 5, 1884, Archives of American Art.

419
In 1886, when the French art dealer:
Mathews,
Mary Cassatt
, 175–76.

419
But it was then, in 1889:
Ibid., 190.

419
“easily the most distinguished”:
Jonnes,
Eiffel’s Tower
, 105.

420
“had become a silent and broken old one”:
Charteris,
John Sargent
, 246.

420
“I say!”:
Ibid., 101.

420
“to enter a new world altogether”: The Times
(London), May 3, 1889.

While a great deal about Saint-Gaudens’s struggle with depression is included in his
Reminiscences
, many important additional details are to be found among the miscellaneous notes in the collection at Dartmouth College. What little is known about Davida Clark and Louis, and the Frances Grimes interview, are also there, as well as financial records kept by Gussie and the recollections of James Fraser. The immense photographic collection at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site has also been a major source of information for this and previous chapters.

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423
But coming here: Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 191.

423
No particular notice:
Holmes,
One Hundred Days in Europe
, 175.

423
“not a soul”:
Ibid., 162.

424
“Rip Van Winkle experiment”:
Ibid., 1.

424
“But when I found them”:
Ibid., 170.

424
“What would the shopkeeper”:
Ibid., 163–64.

424
“sacred edifice”:
Ibid., 165.

424
“I was thinking much more of Foucault’s”:
Ibid.

424
“I sent my card in”:
Ibid., 171.

425
“Nothing looked more nearly the same”:
Ibid., 175.

425
“But what to me”:
Ibid., 168.

425
“desirous of returning in what measure”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. I, 324.

426
“a little box of a room”:
Ibid.

426
“monumental largeness”
and
“too complex”:
Ibid., 326.

426
“an old chap”:
Ibid., 324.

426
He trudged:
Ibid., 324.

426
“the blue smoke”:
Ibid., 325.

426
“deeply felt need”:
Ibid., 323.

427
James Earle Fraser:
Obituary,
New York Times
, October 12, 1953.

427
“discovered”:
Freundlich,
The Sculpture of James Earle Fraser
, 21.

427
“Strange that after having been in Paris”:
Tanner, “The Story of An Artist’s Life,”
Part II
,
The World’s Work
, 11770.

427
In a café on the Left Bank:
Perlman,
Robert Henri: His Life and Art
, 20.

427
“He’s modest”:
Robert Henri Diary, January 27, 1891, Archives of American Art.

427
Tanner’s expenses:
Tanner, “The Story of an Artist’s Life,”
Part I
,
The World’s Work
, 11666.

427
His total expenses:
Ibid., II, 11772.

427
Never were windows opened:
Ibid., 11770.

428
“In the cheap restaurants”:
Ibid., 11771.

428
William Dean Howells:
Weintraub,
Whistler: A Biography
, 380.

428
“Oh, you are young”:
Ibid.

428
Live all you can:
Lewis,
The Jameses
, 518.

428
The Ambassadors: James,
The Ambassadors
, 13.

429
My grandson, Georges de Mare:
De Mare,
G. P. A. Healy, American Artist
, 291.

429
“His love of France”:
Ibid., 292.

429
In 1892, Healy decided:
Ibid., 293–94.

429
arrived in Paris again:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907: A Master of American Sculpture
, 211.

430
he was America’s preeminent:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 206.

430
the only nude he ever rendered:
Ibid., Vol. I, 393.

431
“Augustus Saint-Gaudens—a sculptor whose art”:
Research materials from Harvard University Archives, HUC 6897, HIG 300, UAI 5.150.

431
His inspiration for the building:
Granger,
Charles Follen McKim: A Study of His Life and Architecture
, 23–24.

431
By the late 1890s:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907
, 211.

431
“I suppose through overwork”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 86–87.

432
Gussie had suffered a miscarriage:
Bond,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Man and His Art
, 55; Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907
, 210–11.

432
“aflame”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. I, 373.

432
“the high pressure tension”:
“Biography—Louis Saint-Gaudens—in pencil,” n.d., Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

432
“But I was sick”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 179.

432
“deplorable mental condition”:
Ibid., 138.

432
“neurasthenia,” its symptoms described as:
Beard, ed.,
A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), Its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences, Treatment
, 24–30.

432
A Feeling of Profound Exhaustion: Ibid., 66.

433
“a syndrome marked”:
See
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
(Springfield, Mass.: 1993), 1520.

433
“a weary lion”:
Hagans, “Saint-Gaudens, Zorn, and the Goddesslike Miss Anderson,”
American Art
, 76.

433
“crippled for the remainder of his life”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 122.

433
Quite on the contrary:
Ibid.

433
Swedish model:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907
, 210–11.

433
the summer of 1889, she had a baby:
Ibid.

434
“many affairs”:
Recollections of Frances Grimes, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

435
Sweetness and kindness:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, undated handwritten letter, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

435
“the great things”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 205.

435
In October of 1897:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907
, 211.

435
“maddening”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 123.

435
“out-of-the-way corners”:
Ibid.

436
The young woman who posed for him:
Hagans, “Saint-Gaudens, Zorn, and the Goddesslike Miss Anderson,”
American Art
, 81.

436
“the handsomest model”:
Material from
“Draft of the Reminiscences of SaintGaudens,”
Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

436
For the horse:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 77.

437
“state of turmoil”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 133.

437
“I make seventeen models”:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907
, 108.

437
“dominating little character”:
Fraser, unpublished autobiography, n.d., Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

437
“He is a big fellow”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 194.

438
“blue fits”:
Ibid., 120.

438
“I am feeling very well now”:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, February 26, 1898, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.