Jumat, 24 Februari 2017

Review: Tell It With Pride

Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through January 20, 2014; Massachusetts Historical Society, February 21–May 23, 2014 Since its 1897 unveiling in Boston, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry has been hailed as a work …

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