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.
The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston The Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC), is America's oldest arts and craft nonprofit organization, originally located on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The SAC is currently moving to 100 Pier 4 and plans to reopen in summer 2016. The society was incorporated by twenty-one individuals on June 28, 1897 and was then known as the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston (SACB). The small group was representational of Boston's elites in the fields of teaching, art-making, architecture, and craft. SACB began with the agreement to "develop and encourage higher artistic standards in the handcrafts."