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?
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Augustus Saint-Gaudens ( ; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance". Raised in New York City, he traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study, and then returned to New York, where he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. In addition to his works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, and the outstanding grand equestrian monuments to Civil War Generals, John A. Logan in Chicago's Grant Park, and "William Tecumseh Sherman", at the corner of New York's Central Park, Saint-Gaudens also created such [Classical] works such as the "Diana". He also employed his skills in numismatics. Most notably, he designed the $20 "double eagle" gold piece (1905–1907) for the US Mint, considered one of the most beautiful American coins ever issued as well as the $10 "Indian Head" gold eagle, both of which were minted from 1907 until 1933. In his later years he founded the "Cornish Colony", an artistic colony that included notable painters, sculptors, writers, and architects. His brother Louis Saint-Gaudens with whom he occasionally collaborated, was also a well-known sculptor.
Walter Franklin Lansil Walter Franklin Lansil (1846–1925) was an American painter. Born in Bangor, Maine, to Asa Paine Lansil and Betsey Turner Grout he was a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the "Mayflower" and Edmund Rice an early immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He first studied under Jeremiah Pearson Hardy, then moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1872 with his younger brother and fellow painter Wilbur Henry "Bibber" Lansil (1855–1897). In 1888 the brothers sailed to Europe, where Lansil studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and became enchanted with Venice, a city he'd paint for the rest of his life. By 1891 the brothers had returned to Boston, were living together at 101 Maxwell Street Dorchester with their brothers Asa Brainard Lansil and Edwin Lansil and Edwin's wife and children (brothers Walter, Wilbur and Asa never married) and began holding joint exhibits at their studio in Dorchester.