Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens
Saint Gaudens stands in front of her clay model for an urn
Born
Annetta Johnson

1869 (1869)
Flint, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forSculpture
SpouseLouis Saint-Gaudens
Saint-Gaudens' bronze bird fountain

Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869–1943) was an American sculptor, born in Flint, Ohio. She is best remembered for creating sculptures of "animals, children (and) fountains",[1] but she also did the finishing carving on a "colossal marble figure", the allegorical sculpture Painting in front of the St. Louis Art Museum.[2] She was also significant in the art world as being the wife of Louis Saint-Gaudens and the sister-in-law of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, with whom she studied and worked as an assistant.

  1. ^ Petteys, C.. Dictionary of Women Artists. G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985.
  2. ^ Rubenstein, C. S. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. G. K. Hall and Co. Boston, 1990. p. 127