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 portrait statue in the United States. It has remained so--a masterpiece
of exalted conception and dignified execution. Other statues followed,
each memorable in its way; but Saint Gaudens proved himself not only the
greatest but the most versatile of our sculptors by his work in other
fields--by portraits in high and low relief, by ideal figures, and
notably by the memorial to Robert Gould Shaw, a work distinctively
American and without a counterpart in the annals of art. It is the
spiritual quality of Saint Gaudens's work which sets it apart upon a
lofty pinnacle--the largeness of the man behind it, the artist mind and
the poet heart. Saint Gaudens's death in 1907 deprived American art of
one of its most commanding figures, but there are other American
sculptors alive to-day whose work is noteworthy in a high degree. One of
these is Daniel Chester