Introduction: Sculptors and founders: The sand-casting method ; European centers for bronze casting: Munich, Paris, Florence, Rome ; Metal sculpture in America prior to 1850 -- Casting at midcentury: Clark Mills and Henry Kirke Brown: Clark Mills: from casting the Jackson to Thomas Crawford's Freedom ; Henry Kirke Brown, James T. Ames, and the growth of America's first great bronze foundry: Henry Kirke Brown's Brooklyn foundry, 1848-1851; James T. Ames and Henry Kirke Brown, 1851-1856; Interregnum: the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- J.Q.A. Ward: Electing a foundry, choices of the 1870s and 1880s: From Henry Kirke Brown's Brooklyn studio to L.A. Amouroux to Robert Wood & Co. ; From Robert Wood & Co. to the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company -- In France and America: Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1875-1900: Daniel Chester French: At home: from The Minute Man to John Harvard, 1872-1884; Abroad: Gallaudet, Alcott, Milmore, 1885-1893; Taking care of business: competitive bids and casting reductions ; Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Abroad: from the Hiawatha to the Admiral Farragut Memorial, 1872-1881; At home: from the Randall statue to the Shaw Memorial, 1880-1897; Home to stay, 1900-1907 -- The development of lost-wax casting in America: The lost-wax casting method ; The revival of lost-wax casting in Europe ; Paul Bartlett and lost-wax casting in America: From early training to the Salon of 1895; The Clark tomb, the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, and the Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1895-1906 ; Frederic Remington at Roman Bronze Works: Remington and The Bronco Buster of 1895; Remington at the Roman Bronze Works, 1900-1909 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: [letters, and costs of creating bronzes] -- Checklist of nineteenth-century American bronze foundries -- Notes.
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