Frederick MacMonnies

Sculptor. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a skilled carver who, by the age of 18, was invited to work in Augustus Saint-Gaudens' studio. One of his numerous public commissions wasBaccante and Infant Faun(1893) for the Boston Public Library; the sculpture became acause célèbrewhen citizens objected to its nudity and demanded its removal.Joan StahlAmerican Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection(Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)