Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Of American Sculpture

Trained in Paris and Rome, Augustus Saint-Gaudens is considered America's premiere sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries. During a career that spanned three decades, Saint-Gaudens created nearly one hundred and fifty works of art, including a number of major public monuments to heroes of the Civil War. While many passerby stop to admire his sculpture, few know of the life and times that created these incredible works of art.

The story of his personal life is woven around in-depth studies of six of his major works of art, including the contemplative Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago, to the intensely moving Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, the powerful Sherman Monument in Central Park, the serenly beautiful Diana now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the stirring Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C.