If you could not attend last week’s Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centenary Symposium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., please be aware that the symposium has an afterlife. The lectures may be viewed on an archived webcast at www.AmericanArt.si.edu/2007_symposium. You will need the latest version of Windows Media Player to view this webcast.
Individual presentations included:
"An Introduction to Smithsonian Collections" by George Gurney, deputy chief curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
 
"Voices from Across the Sea: The European Associates of Augustus Saint-Gaudens" by Henry J.  Duffy, curator and chief of cultural resources, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
 
"Saint-Gaudens Lost Angels" by Cynthia Mills, historian, Smithsonian American Art Museum
 
"After Saint-Gaudens: Casts, Memories and Legacies" by Thayer Tolles, associate curator of American paintings and sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
"Conservation of the Shaw Memorial: The Long Journey" by Shelley Sturman, head of object conservation, National Gallery of Art
 
Erika Doss, chair of the American studies department at the University of Notre Dame, moderated a panel discussion following the presentations. 

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