The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (106 page)

438
“This Paris experience”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 186.

438
“magnificent voice”:
Fraser, unpublished autobiography, n.d., Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

438
“Dear old Fellow”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 188–92.

438
… the elevated road:
Ibid.

438
“Up to my visit here”:
Ibid., 192.

439
“a feeling of weariness”:
Ibid.

439
“another of those fearful depressions”:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, February 10, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

439
“I had come to appreciate Paris”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 178.

440
“Your father … is beginning the Sherman cloak”:
Augusta Saint-Gaudens to Homer Saint-Gaudens, December 9, 1898, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

440
Now the left hind leg:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 133.

440
“insane asylum”:
Ibid., 136.

440
“Eleven moulders”:
Ibid.

440
“The Sherman is in the place of honor”:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, May 1 (no year but appears to be 1900), Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

440
Feeling a need to get away:
Augusta Saint-Gaudens to Homer Saint-Gaudens, May 26, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

440
It had been their mutual friend John La Farge:
O’Toole,
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880–1918
, 165, 157.

441
“The whole meaning and feeling of the figure”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. I, 363.

441
“Paris delights me”:
Adams,
Letters of Henry Adams, 1892–1918
, 235.

441
“risked”:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
, 366.

441
“to draw him out for a stroll”:
Ibid.

441
“very—very bald”:
O’Toole,
The Five of Hearts
, 6.

441
“most inarticulate”:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
, 366.

442
All the others:
Ibid.

442
“excessive”:
Ibid.

442
“inane”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 198.

442
“Evidently I must”:
Ibid.

442
in a letter to Will Low:
Ibid., 198–201.

442
“very sick”:
Ibid., 202.

442
“It is fearful”:
Ibid.

442
From a surviving note in his hand:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Louis Saint-Gaudens, October 27, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

443
Your father is about the same:
Augusta Saint-Gaudens to Homer Saint-Gaudens, November 16, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

443
“Your father has been made a member”:
Augusta Saint-Gaudens to Homer Saint-Gaudens, December 1, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

443
trouble with the horse’s upraised left hind leg:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 133.

443
“on the homestretch”:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, July 8, 1899, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

444
He was anti-Semitic:
O’Toole,
The Five of Hearts
, 70.

444
“Porcupine Poeticus”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 334.

444
I must study politics and war:
McCullough,
John Adams
, 236–37.

445
“Every day opens new horizons”:
O’Toole,
The Five of Hearts
, 322.

445
The automobile, considered a curiosity:
Weber,
France: Fin de Siècle
, 206–7, and
Paris Daily Messenger
, May 5, 1900.

445
Not until they found themselves:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
, 367.

445
“conventional as death”:
Adams,
Letters of Henry Adams, 1892–1918
, 245.

445
“a quintessence of Boston”:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
, 368.

446
“channel of force”:
Ibid.

446
“channel of taste”:
Ibid.

446
“instinctively preferred the horse”:
Ibid.

446
“a new life”:
Adams,
Letters of Henry Adams, 1892–1918
, 246.

446
Exposition Universelle:
See coverage of the 1900 exposition in the
American Register, Paris Daily Messenger
, and
Paris Herald.
447
First Chicagoan:
Rosenblum, Stevens, and Dumas,
1900: Art at the Crossroads
, 57.

447
“All Americans are in Paris”:
Adams,
Letters of Henry Adams, 1892–1918
, 291.

447
Adams, who could not stay away:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
, 360.

447
“air-ships”:
Ibid., 367.

447
“His chief interest”:
Ibid., 361.

448
“began to feel the forty-foot dynamo”:
Ibid.

448
“pell-mell”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 185.

448
“arms, legs, faces”:
Ibid.

448
Four of his own major works:
Hureaux,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848–1907: A Master of American Sculpture
, 211.

449
Auguste Rodin was seen:
Wilkinson,
Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, 309; Gibson, “Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the American Monument,”
New Criterion
, October 2009, 44.

449
“too much the effect of a guttering candle”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 50.

449
struck by severe stomach pains:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Louis Saint-Gaudens, August 2, 1900; Fraser, unpublished autobiography, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College; Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
, Vol. II, 222; Tharp,
Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era
, 307.

449
Years later Fraser put down on paper:
Fraser, unpublished autobiography, n.d., Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

451
a few final instructions:
Ibid.

451
Saint-Gaudens sailed for home:
Wilkinson,
Uncommon Clay
, 311–12.

451
At the Opera, Gounod’s
Faust:
New York Tribune
, May 5, 1901.

452
“daily thronged”: Paris Herald
, April 10, 1901.

452
“making her mark”: New York Herald
, May 12, 1901.

452
“We had no money … but we wanted nothing”:
Duncan,
My Life
, 67.

Not only are the Saint-Gaudens home and its furnishings at Cornish just as they were and the view of Mount Ascutney as magnificent as ever, the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site includes the greatest assembly of Saint-Gaudens works to be seen anywhere.

Saint-Gaudens’s
Sherman and Victory
, like his
Farragut
, remain major public monuments at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street and in Madison Square Park in New York, seen by tens of thousands of people every day, most all of whom have little or no idea of the Civil War history represented, or the story behind how each came to be.

John Singer Sargent’s painting of Theodore Roosevelt hangs prominently in the East Room of the White House, while at the other end of the house, over the mantel in the State Dining Room, is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George P. A. Healy. Six other portraits by Healy are part of the White House Collection and another seventeen are at the National Portrait Gallery.

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453
Gus put Fraser in charge: Freundlich,
The Sculpture of James Earle Fraser
, 23.

453
Work on the Sherman:
Fraser, unpublished autobiography, n.d., Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College; ibid., 21.

454
“The sculptor took no part”: New York Times
, May 31, 1903;
New York Herald
, May 31, 1903.

454
In 1904, a fire:
Freundlich,
The Sculpture of James Earle Fraser
, 23.

454
In 1906, Gus’s old friend:
See Baker,
Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White
, 373–76; Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Alfred Garnier, July 6, 1906, Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College.

454
“We are not dead yet”:
Saint-Gaudens, ed.,
Reminiscences of Augustus SaintGaudens
, Vol. II, 58.