Labor group, plaster model, 33 inches x 5 feet, 1 1/4 inches
(83.82 cm. x 1.56 m.), collection of SGNHS
Law group, plaster model, 32 inches x 5
feet
(81.28 cm. x 1.52 m.), collection of SGNHS
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Labor group, plaster model, 33 inches x 5 feet, 1 1/4 inches |
Law group, plaster model, 32 inches x 5
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Louis St. Gaudens may have developed the sketches before 1897. Elsie Ward
and Henry Hering assisted Augustus Saint-Gaudens in modeling the figures
after 1900. The groups were never completed. In fact, when the models were
shipped back to New Hampshire from the Paris studio, they were crushed
beyond repair, an accident that must have demoralized the sick sculptor.
The figures remained unfinished after the artist’s death, the library awarded a new commission to Bela
L. Pratt, a former student of Saint-Gaudens. Mrs. Saint-Gaudens cast the
two group models in bronze and sold them to Charles Freer in 1915.
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