United States Twenty Dollar Coin
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
H.: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Classification
metalwork
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105475
About the Artist
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1848–1907
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) was an Irish-born American sculptor widely regarded as the greatest American sculptor of the nineteenth century. Born in Dublin to a French father and Irish mother, he was brought to New York City as an infant. He trained as a cameo cutter, studied at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, and then traveled to Paris, where he studied at the École de...