Bela Pratt and Charles Keck

Bela Pratt (1867-1917) was born in Norwich, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, Pratt studied with Saint-Gaudens at the Art Students League. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, returning to the U.S. to take a commission for sculpture for the World's Columbian Exposition. When Saint-Gaudens' uncompleted group for the entrance to the Boston Public Library was rejected, Pratt was awarded the commission. Pratt was one of the sculptors who continued Saint-Gaudens' influence in coin design after 1907; his five-dollar coin, its unusual intaglio Indian head the U.S. mint's only recessed design in circulation, is known as the "Pratt coin."

Charles Keck (1875-1951) was born in New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and with Philip Martiny, one of Saint-Gaudens' assistants. Keck was an assistant to Saint-Gaudens from 1893-1898. He won the Rinehart Scholarship and spent the years 1900-1904 at the American Academy in Rome, of which Saint-Gaudens was one of the founders. Saint-Gaudens continued to keep in touch with Keck, providing him criticisms of his work. Keck is known for his public monuments, including a memorial to explorers Lewis and Clark in Charlottesville, Virginia.