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Saint Gaudens ' bas relief of Helena deKay and Richard Watson Gilder and son Rodman, 1879. Gift of David and Joshua Gilder, 2002( Metropolitan Museum of Art)
a handful of his contemporaries who“ stirred up the stagnant air of New York.” Other notable structures in the Berkshires that White designed include Searles Castle in Great Barrington, currently the private residence of renowned artist Hunt Slonem; and the Stockbridge Casino, which is now called the Fitzpatrick Main
Stage owned by Berkshire Theatre Group.
In contrast to the ebullient White, who could mix incredible productivity with insatiable social life, Saint-Gaudens was a private prodigy. His contemporary sculptor friend, Daniel Chester French and wife Mary Adams French, understood his preference for small groups. Mary
described Saint-Gaudens warmly as“ the most sociable and responsive of men and most entertaining.” But he disliked the presence of celebrities, and“ he hated being made a lion.” In her Memoirs of a Sculptor’ s Wife, Mary chronicled the literary and artistic circles in New York and reflected,“ There is one person whom I never remember having seen at the Gilders and that was Saint-Gaudens.” She was referring the high-voltage salon on Gramercy Park of my husband’ s great-grandparents, Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder and artist Helena deKay of New York and Tyringham.
Saint-Gaudens did have a personal friendship with the Gilders. He modelled two bas reliefs of them( now in the Metropolitan Museum), and Richard Watson Gilder always took mock pride that those legs of Admiral Farragut, the Civil War hero of“ damn the torpedoes fame,” were actually his. As recounted by Wiencek, the Farragut Monument went through many versions over the years before it was finally installed in Madison Square on White’ s spectacular undulating bluestone pedestal
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