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.