Homer Saint-Gaudens
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Homer Shiff Saint-Gaudens (1880-1958) was the only child of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance"...

 and his wife Augusta (née Homer). He served as the Director of the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
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 and was a founder of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, a non-profit organization that maintained the family home
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire, preserves the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens , one of America's foremost sculptors. This was his summer residence from 1885 to 1897, his permanent home from 1900 until his death in 1907, and the center of the...

 as a museum before its donation to the National Park Service
National Park Service
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 in 1965.

Saint-Gaudens was featured on the cover of Time magazine
Time (magazine)
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for its 12 May 1924 edition.
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