About this artwork
This sculpture is a reduced version of a monument created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens for the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, in honor of Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the town's early settlers. Striding purposefully forward, with a knotty walking stick in one hand and his Bible in the other, the figure embodies the perseverance, resilience, and stern morality that late-19th-century Americans admired in their colonial forebears. Appealing to the period’s Colonial Revival sensibility, the statue proved immensely popular, and Saint-Gaudens consequently created a smaller, generalized version to sell in multiples, which he entitled simply The Puritan.
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On View
- American Art, Gallery 161
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Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Title
- The Puritan
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- 1883–1886
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Medium
- Bronze
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Dimensions
- 77.5 × 50.8 × 33 cm (30 1/2 × 20 × 13 in.)
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Credit Line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
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Reference Number
- 2007.390
Extended information about this artwork
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