The exhibition traveled to Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University (Auburn, AL), Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN), and Michener Art Museum (Doylestown, PA)

Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French was the first exhibition to examine the intersecting significance of the two foremost American sculptors of the Gilded Age. French (1850–1931) and Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) were friendly rivals who transformed sculpture in the United States, producing dozens of the nation’s most recognizable public artworks—from Saint-Gaudens’s Diana atop New York City’s Madison Square Garden to French’s Seated Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC. Drawing upon the collections of the artists’ historic homes, Chesterwood and the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, the project included approximately seventy sculptures, models, maquettes, and more. The exhibition introduced audiences to the sculptors’ careers and examined how their art shaped and reflected America’s complicated negotiation of national identity in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.