by horatio greenough and greenough thought that he would help educate the americans with great hard and he lived in italy and was the most prominent american sculptor and he thought it was wonderful and that the unclothed good bodies and beauty to the americans did not agree with that. the statute itself is rather awkward in size and the building and so they moved it outside. here's a group of schoolchildren looking candidate you can see the lamppost in the background there. this is what it looked like outside and you can get a good picture of george washington there showing off his muscle and teaching us like he was a greek leader. when americans did not like that predict this was 1915 up with the blue arrow to say where that statute was. greenough knew that that statue would be controversial and he had had an earlier statute that included some little cupid like figures and they were little boys and showing the little boy parts. on the location where it was women got together make diapers and put on the little boys. and you can see that so the statute proved unpopular. and here is the

i'm sarah greenough, the senior curator of photographs here at the national gallery of art, and i am the co-curator of this exhibition. augusta saint god dins began to work on this memorial in 1883. initially he was going to take it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. if you look at some of the examples in the case behind you, you'll see one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict colonel robert gould shaw on a horse. that kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. however, colonel shaw's family objected to that. they shout such a depiction was too grand a way to show their son. he was, after all, only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of fort wagner. they thought that kind of depiction was better reserved for generals and not a colonel like shaw. moreover, shaw's family felt it would be more appropriate to show him with his troops. so saint gaudens went back to the drawing board, quite literally, and came up with this inception, with the idea of putting shaw surrounded by his troops. it was truly a revolutionary idea for the time, bu

up next, an additional segment from the program with co-curator saro greenough, regarding the legacy of the memorial and efforts to conserve the once neglected bronze sculpture in boston. >> the 54th massachusetts regiment, augusta saint-gauden shaw memorial, has continued to reverberate through american culture in the 20th and 21st century. artists, poets, writers have reflected on its importance throughout this time. there have been poems written to it, composers have reflected on it. st. gaudens himself was one of the first people to try and promote knowledge about his memorial as soon as it was installed. he commissioned curtis and cameron, who were a company that made prints that circulated images of the finest works of art that america had created. they circulated these images to colleges and libraries and schools throughout the country. he commissioned them to make a photograph and a print of the shaw memorial that was sold to schools and libraries. you could buy it in a variety of different sizes in the late 19th and early 20th century. because he wanted people to see and und

it is by horatio greenough paid he thought he would help educate americans with great arts. he lived in italy was the most prominent american sculpture there. he thought the art there was a wonderful unclothed bodies added to the beauty. americans did not agree with that. the statue itself looked rather awkward inside the building. until they moved it outside. here is group of schoolchildren looking at it. you can look at the homestead lamp post in the background there. this is what it looked like outside. you can get a good picture of george washington there showing off his muscles and teaching us like he was a greek leader. but americans did not like that. this is the map in 1815 i put the blue arrow to show you where the statue was. they knew that statue is going to be controversial. he had had an earlier statue that included some cupid -like figures they were little boys and it was showing their little boy parts and the location where it was, women got together and made diapers to put on the little boys because they did not want to see that. the statute proved unpopular.