Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001998The Puritan
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, bottom-middle, on base, in cast: "THE PVRITAN"; inscribed verso, bottom-middle, on base, in cast: "COPYRIGHT BY / AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS / •M•D CCCXCIX".
Provenance
Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago and Miami, FL, 1906 [Puritan dated Dec. 11, 1906, on list of works purchased by Charles Deering, “Rec’d Mr. C. D.,” Augustus Saint-Gaudens Papers, box 5, folder 25, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH]; by descent to his daughters Marion McCormick (born Marion Deering; Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, 1886–1965), Chicago, and Barbara Danielson (born Barbara Deering; Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1888–1982), Groton, MA, 1927; Marion McCormick, after 1936 [Puritan on Charles Deering collection list; collection list dates to 1936 or later; ownership not yet designated between daughters; copy in institutional archives]; by descent to her son Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, 1965; estate of Brooks McCormick, 2006; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Publications
Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (Macmillan, 1924), 222, as Puritan. Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2007–2008), 19. Sofia Ortega-Guerrero, “Americas in the Making,” in “In the Galleries,” ed. Elizabeth McGoey and Sara Picard, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026), https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848–1907)
- Date
- Modeled 1883–86, cast after 1899
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 77.5 × 50.8 × 33 cm (30 1/2 × 20 × 13 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 2007.390
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