Frances Folsom Cleveland
Saint-Gaudens began modelling a low-relief portrait of Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947), wife of President Grover Cleveland, while both were guests at the summer home of Helena and Richard Gilder in Marion, Massachusetts, in August 1887, completing the seventeen-inch medallion in 1892. It depicts Frances Cleveland one year after her marriage to the President, at age twenty-three, wearing an upswept hairstyle and a fashionable, high-collared dress. In late 1901, Saint-Gaudens reduced the scale of the plaster medallion to five-and-a-half inches in diameter, and early in 1902 he cast it in bronze and presented this example to Richard Gilder as a birthday present.
Artwork Details
- Title: Frances Folsom Cleveland
- Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)
- Date: 1887–92, cast 1902
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
- Credit Line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2008
- Object Number: 2008.156
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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