Robert Treat Paine and Helen Farnsworth Mears

Robert Treat Paine (1870-1946) was born in Valparaiso, Indiana. He studied at the Chicago School of Art, and with Saint-Gaudens at the Art Students League in New York. Paine invented a "pointing-up" device to mechanically enlarge sculpture, a process which had previously been done by hand. The first piece thus enlarged was the 1896 model for Saint-Gaudens' Sherman Monument.

Helen Farnsworth Mears (1876-1916) was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and studied at the Chicago Art Institute. She was commissioned to create a sculpture to represent the state of Wisconsin at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Mears subsequently attended the Art Students League in New York, and became an assistant to Saint-Gaudens in his New York and Paris studios. In Paris, in 1898, she was particularly involved with work on the Sherman Monument. That same year, she made a portrait relief of the sculptor. Mears and her sister Mary, a writer, were the first artists to live and work at the McDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire