Wayne and Virginia C. MacVeagh

model 1902-1903, cast 1906

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Sculptor, American, born Ireland, 1848 - 1907

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned as a cast after the marble original (which they owned and had also commissioned) by Wayne [1833-1917] and Virginia Rolette Cameron [1840-1920] MacVeagh, Washington and Philadelphia;[1] by inheritance to their daughter, Margaretta Cameron MacVeagh Farrar Smith [d. 1938], Washington; her husband, Captain Stuart Farrar Smith [d. 1951], Washington; gift 1940 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] MacVeagh, an American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General in 1881, and Ambassador to Turkey from 1894 to 1897, was married twice; first to Letitia Lewis [d. 1866], and then to Virginia Cameron. It is his second wife who is depicted in the relief.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1908

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition, American Institute of Architects at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 December 1908 - 1 January 1909, no. 94.

1969

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 12 November 1969 - 31 January 1970, no. 50, repro.

1974

  • Nineteenth Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 March - 26 May 1974, unpublished and unnumbered checklist.

1999

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: un maitre de la sculpture americaine, Musee des Augustins, Toulouse; Musee de la Cooperation franco-americaine, Chateau de Blerancourt, France, 12 February - 18 October 1999.

2009

  • American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 29 April 2009 - 2013, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1997

  • James-Gadzinski, Susan and Mary Mullen Cunningham. American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia and Seattle, 1997: 109.

Inscriptions

lower right, artist's initials in monogram: MDCC / ASG / CCII

Wikidata ID

Q63863757

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