Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New Yorker, and his Metropolitan Museum a lecture by Thayer Tolles

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Tolles, Thayer

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907--Homes and haunts.

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus.

Sculpture, American--19th century.

Sculpture, American.

Genre:

Streaming video

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file) sound, color

Other Title:

Sunday at the Met

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2009]

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [2009]

System Details:

System requirements: Flash player

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

"Curator Thayer Tolles, organizer of the exhibition 'Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,' [June 30-Nov.15, 2009] discusses the centenary of Saint-Gaudens's death, including the commemorative activities that culminated in the 2009 exhibition. She discusses the reappraisal of Saint-Gaudens's role in the history of late nineteenth-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement and also takes a look at the artist's interactions with the Metropolitan Museum during his lifetime."--YouTube

Notes:

Title from title frames

Lecture given September 13, 2009 as part of the ongoing series "Sunday at the Met" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

OCLC:

682277385

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access