Augustus Saint-Gaudens . lled the Farragut strut. It is not a strut at all,but simply the natural carriage of a seaman. Indeed, thewhole spirit of this monument is delightfully significantof the quarter-deck, a fact which may trouble those whofear realism in art as they fear the plague, but whichcarries its own recommendation to those conscious ofthe importance of realistic principles when they are pro-perly handled. They are handled with excellent judg-ment in the Farragut. To call it breezy would be tooverstate the case, but it is true that Saint-Gaudens pro-duced on this occasion a figure i
Augustus Saint-Gaudens . lled the Farragut strut. It is not a strut at all,but simply the natural carriage of a seaman. Indeed, thewhole spirit of this monument is delightfully significantof the quarter-deck, a fact which may trouble those whofear realism in art as they fear the plague, but whichcarries its own recommendation to those conscious ofthe importance of realistic principles when they are pro-perly handled. They are handled with excellent judg-ment in the Farragut. To call it breezy would be tooverstate the case, but it is true that Saint-Gaudens pro-duced on this occasion a figure instinct with the energy ofa man fronting perils in the open air, amid great windsand under a vast sky. It owes something, by the way,to the pedestal, which is at once charmingly decorativeand quite weighty enough to provide a true monu-46 ADMIRAL FARRAGUT This was the sculptors first commission for a statue. Hemodelled it in Paris, exhibiting it in the Salon there in was erected in New York in the following WILLIAM M. EVARTS Modelled in New York immediately after the sculptorsreturn from Italy. Mr. Evarts was one of his first patrons,and this was the first portrait bust that Saint^Gaudens exc/cuted.
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