August Saint-Gaudens
August Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin on March 1, 1848, and died on Aug. 3, 1907, in Cornish, N.H.
He was one of the top sculptors in America in the 19th century.Saint-Gaudens is credited with numerous public monuments. The Smithsonian credits him with close to 500. In New York, he made the statue of Peter Cooper that sits in Cooper Square, the equestrian statue of the Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman at the southeast corner of Central Park and the statue of the Civil War Adm. David Farragut in Madison Square. Elsewhere, Saint-Gaudens sculpted the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston Common and the equestrian statue of the Civil War Gen. John A. Logan in Chicago. He also designed the famous $20 “double-eagle” gold coin.


