Augustus Saint-Gaudens, was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance", in his later years he founded the "Cornish Colony", was a popular art colony centered in Cornish, New Hampshire, from about which year?
Cornish Art Colony The Cornish Art Colony (or Cornish Artists’ Colony, or Cornish Colony) was a popular art colony centered in Cornish, New Hampshire from about 1895 through the years of World War I. Attracted by the natural beauty of the area, about 100 artists, sculptors, writers, designers, and politicians lived there either full-time or during the summer months. With views across the Connecticut River Valley to Mount Ascutney in Vermont, the bucolic scenery was considered to resemble that of an Italian landscape.
Caroline Peddle Ball Caroline Peddle Ball (1869-1938) was an American sculptor. Born at Terre Haute, Indiana, she was a pupil at the Art Students' League, under Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Kenyon Cox. She received honorable mention at Paris Exhibition, 1900. She was a member of the Guild of Arts and Crafts and of Art Students' League. This sculptor exhibited at Paris a Bronze Clock. She designed for the Tiffany Glass Company the figure of the Young Virgin and that of the Christ of the Sacred Heart. A memorial fountain at Flushing, Long Island, a medallion portrait of Miss Cox of Terre Haute, a monument to a child in the same city, a Victory in a quadriga seen on the United States Building, Paris, 1900, and also at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, 1901, are among her important works.