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On Top of the World
Julia "Dudie" Baird, featured here, was an actress and artist's model in New York City during the Gilded Age. She also posed for the renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens for his thirteen-foot-tall statue of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt. From 1893 to 1925, that statue topped the original Madison Square Garden, designed by Dewing's friend Stanford White. |