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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1777944, member: 11854&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Post one of three-</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">I live close enough to the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site (SGNHS) such that my wife and I have visited more than a dozen times over the years and we have brought our daughters there several times, too.&nbsp; This past weekend we did a few family things including a visit to Santa’s Village, which followed a tour of the McAuliffe-Shepard observatory (where I nearly lost my life) and a planetarium show.&nbsp; We then spent Sunday at the SGNHS.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">The site is in Cornish, NH, right along the Maxfield Parish Highway and has only a small sign at the beginning of the 0.6 mile long driveway.&nbsp; The driveway is fairly steep throughout and I imagine that 100+ years ago when the grounds were first built out that it was truly a bear to transport anything up the mountain.&nbsp; It was just before 10:00 AM and a brisk 57-degrees when we parked in the tiny 24-spot parking lot (ours was the second car in the lot) and were told by the Park Ranger that there would be no admission fee since it was the 97th birthday of the National Park system.&nbsp; We paid our $10 anyway; it seemed like the proper thing to do.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Directly behind a hedge is the house, which is called Aspet, and next to the house is the studio.&nbsp; Neither is an enormous construction and the studio is likely just a tiny bit smaller than the home.&nbsp; We walked into the studio since the house is meant for guided tours while the studio allows a free flowing walk where you can actually get up next to the artwork and be as close as you like.&nbsp; These pictures are of the side and rear of the house as well as the front of the studio.&nbsp; &nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0430.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0153.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Inside the studio, Diana dominates the central working area.&nbsp; The top of her head stands perhaps ten feet off the ground and several images are included to give a sense of the room and the materials in the room.&nbsp; The studio is flooded with natural light as well as being filled with various works of art.&nbsp; These include a plaque that describes the little temple behind the studio and a special award presented to ASG at the Pan American Exposition in 1901, which was created by ASG’s former student, James Earle Fraser.&nbsp; Both the plaque and the award are about four feet in their longest dimension.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0159.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0398.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0171a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0403.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0165b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0181a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">Just around the corner is a tiny extra room that had been the gift shop in the 1990s, but is now a display of additional works of art.&nbsp; This is the only part of the studio that is roped off and I managed to set off the alarm system when I leaned over to take an image.&nbsp; The Rangers ignored the alarm and, when I later told one that I inadvertently set it off, she told me it happens to them, too.&nbsp; These two images show some of the work on display in this tiny area including a work featuring Lincoln as well as a double eagle study with its negative.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0191.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0409.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri">As soon as one exits the studio there are a series of small gardens that have statues and pools.&nbsp; These three images are from the Pan Garden with the last of the three being a close-up of one of a series of four fish that fill up the marble pool.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0197.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0370.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/239107/aDSC_0384.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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