I have always admired the sculptures of Augustus Saint Gaudens, and whether it was going to Rangers-Flyers games at Madison Square Garden where I saw Diana, or my interest in the Civil War which led me to Boston to see the monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th 
Massachusetts Regiment, or my early public relations work for Cooper 
Union where I could see Saint Gaudens’s statue of Peter Cooper, or working at Playboy at Fifth and 56th, a mere block away from the great statue of William Tecumseh Sherman or at Spy at Union Square, a mere nine blocks from his statue of Admiral David Farragut in Madison Square, I feel I have always been surrounded by the work of Saint Gaudens. Today in Slate, Witold Rybczynski offers a slide show in praise of this magnificent American artist.
