Artist Kenyon Cox, one of the invited artists to the 1891 competition, stated, " I think it disgraceful that this great country should have such a coin as this . " " Harper's Weekly " proclaimed, " The mountain had labored and brought forth a mouse . " Saint-Gaudens was also interviewed, and as author Moran put it, " injudiciously ranted " : " This is inept; this looks like it had been designed by a young lady of sixteen, a miss who had taken only a few lessons in modeling.
