Young Homer Saint-Gaudens with his goat,
"Seasick,"
near the west porch of Aspet, circa 1890
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Young Homer Saint-Gaudens with his goat,
"Seasick," |
| Homer Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958) was the only child
of Augustus and Augusta Homer Saint-Gaudens. After attending Harvard
College, he became a writer, art critic, theatrical manager, and director
of the art museum of the Carnegie Institute after 1921. In 1905 Homer
married Carlota Dolley, a student at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and later, at Augustus Saint-Gaudens'
encouragement, a painter of miniatures. They had three
children: Augustus, Carlota, and Harold, who died in infancy. Homer and
his family lived in Cornish in "Barberry House," just over the
hill from Aspet. During World War I Homer served as chief of camouflage (40th Engineers) and was awarded the Bronze Star. He also advised the camouflage unit in World War II, and would later comment that, despite his lifetime in the arts, his chief love had been the army. Author of The American Artist and His Times (1941), Homer also edited and amplified the Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1913). He was a contributor to a number of periodicals, a founder of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, and its director until 1953. |
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