Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869-1943) was born in Flint, Ohio, and began her art training at the Columbus Art School before coming to New York to study at the Art Students League. She assisted in Saint-Gaudens' New York studio from 1894 to 1896, where she worked on the Logan Monument. In 1898 she married Louis St. Gaudens. The couple moved to Ohio where their son Paul was born. In 1900, Annetta, Louis and Paul came to live in Cornish at the request of Augustus. Annetta continued to work in Cornish summers after the death of Augustus, assisting her husband Louis in his commissions and creating ceramic and terra cotta pottery pieces, some with her son, Paul, at the Orchard Kiln Pottery.