Original photograph, Adams Memorial, St. Gaudens Start Price USD 140.00 Current Price USD 140.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 02, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Location Benton Harbor, MI See more about 'Original photograph, Adams Memorial, St. Gaudens' Description Offered is an original, vintage sepia photograph of the Adams Monument, GriefAugustus Saint-Gaudens(1848-1907), Irish-born American Realist Sculptor. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Saint-Gaudens family immigrated to New York City when he was six months old. When he completed school, at age thirteen, he apprenticed him to a cameo cutter and at the same time took art classes at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. At 19, he traveled to Paris and studied under Francois Jouffry at Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1870, he left Paris for Rome where he studied classical art and architecture for the next five years and also worked on his first commissions. In 1876 he received his first major commission; a monument to Civil War Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, in New York's Madison Square, which was unveiled in 1881. Saint-Gaudens taught steadily from 1888 to 1897. He tutored young artists privately, taught at the Art Students League, was an artistic advisor to the Columbian Exposition of 1893, an avid supporter of the American Academy in Rome, and part of the MacMillan Commission, which made recommendations for the architectural and artistic preservation and improvement of the Nations's Capital. Saint-Gaudens and his family summered in Cornish beginning in 1885 until the family moved there full time in 1900., renting an old inn for the summer from his friend and lawyer, Charles Beaman. He adapted the house to his needs, and converted a hay barn into a studio. He and his family grew to love the place, and purchased it in 1891. He and his family continued to summer here until 1900, when they came to stay full time. Many other well known artists followed Saint-Gaudens to Cornish, forming a dynamic social and creative environment that became known as the Cornish Colony - it included painters (Maxfield Parrish, Thomas Dewing, George Deforest Brush and Kenyon Cox), dramatists, novelists, architects and sculptors. The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Peace of God or The Mystery of the Hereafter...beyond pain and beyond joy, but is commonly called Grief. The memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. Author and historian and descendent of two presidents, Henry Adams (1838-1918) commissioned sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens to execute this statue in 1886. It was erected in as memorial to his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams, an early photographer who committed suicide the prior year by drinking cyanide (a photo developing chemical). Adams suggested Saint-Gaudens might study images from Buddhism and Christianity and he created what has been called his most unusual work, combining male and female characteristics with both Eastern and Western visual references. The bronze figure is 5 feet 10 inches tall and is on a granite base.Offered is an original, vintage sepia photograph - beautiful matte finish, possibly a palladium print - of the Adams Monument, Grief Double mounted (tacked with adhesive along top edge) - once on tan paper and secondly on heavy light brown paper. It is by an unknown photographer, Arthur Lewitt(?) - signed below the lower right corner of the photograph on the mountEntitled "Grief"and inscribed by the photographer "To The Sculptor Iannelli From His Friend"Three corners have paper loss, two tack holes - upper center & upper right corner, the photograph is in excellent condition. Dimensions: Matt #1: 14 1/2 by 10 1/4 inches; Matt #2: 7 by 4 3/8 inches; Photograph: 6 7/8 by 4 1/4 inches. Payment by PayPal. Note: eBay no longer accepts paper payment - electronic only. Buyer pays for shipping and handling - insurance required. Michigan residents add 6% sales tax. Place a Bid!