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The artist warned the President up front that while his desired high relief would be certainly aesthetically worthy, ”The authorities on modern monetary requirements would, I fear, ‘throw fits’ to speak emphatically, if the thing were done now….” Somewhat later, Saint-Gaudens spoke humorously of Barber’s long term in the engravership, suggesting that he had been there before the establishment of the Republic and would survive long after, sitting in its ruins. Borrowing a quote from Chicago’s comic figure “Mister Dooley,” the artist predicted that Barber would be stricken with ”nervous prostitution” (sic) if the President persisted in his high relief quest. However, persist he did and a greatly encouraged artist went to work despite his terminal illness. His stated goal was to make his new double eagle with its striding full-form Liberty and majestic flying eagle ”a living thing and typical of progress.”
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