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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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by Congress, in (890. Lafayette isrepresented in the costume of the ContinentalArmy. America extends to him a sword. Theother figures of the group are Rochambeau, Du-portail, DEstaing, and De Grasse. The modellingis fluently French, and the design and groupingsuave and graceful, according to the foreign tradi-tion- Frederick MacMonnies1 equestrian statue ofGeneral George B. McClellan occupies a superbsituation at the highest point of ConnecticutAvenue, and was erected in 1907, by the SouthernArmy of the Potomac and Congrec Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848-1907) is repsented in Washington by the famous Adams Monu-ment, erected in Rock (reek Cemetery, to the mem- of a woman who died, it is said, under tragiccircumstances. This is one of the sculptors workswhich reveals the development of his idealized figures of draped women. The Adams Monumentconsists of a heavily draped ficmre, which might besymbolic of Sleep or Eternity, but which has been called Grief and Death, seated upon a rough hewn
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ADAMS MONUMENT: ROCK CREEK CEMETERY. Augustus Saint Gaudens public Statuary 383 block of granite, and leaning against a large, pol! slab of the same material. Tins slab formsthe centre of an hexagonal plot, about twenty feetin diameter, while opposite, and occupying threesides of the hexagon, is a massive -tone bench. The whole is placed within a dense growth of ever greens, which completely screen the monument from view; an effective, if rather gruesome set-ting, which accentuates the mysterious and awe-some character of the sepulchral figure. Saint Gaudens has embodied his emotional ideain the form of a womans figure, wrapped aboutin coarse drapery that shrouds her head, and fallsin long, loose, heavy folds at her feet. The figureis in bronze, vigorous in modelling and compel-ling and forceful in its illusion of suspended anima-tion. The effect is profoundly realistic. The the-atrical setting detracts from serious considerationof the figure, and too much stress has been laidupon

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