Word: borglum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First came famed Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, who threw the image of his design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum...
...last fortnight, was vexed. Said he: "Mr. Borglum's head of General Lee everyone recognized. Mr. Lukeman's head of General Lee few people recognize. The nose is crooked, the left arm looks withered and paralyzed, the hilt of the sword is gone and the stirrup of his saddle is broken off. The money is all gone, and the Lukeman carving of General Lee is a mutilated imperfection that cannot be rectified...
...Craftsman French and the portraits of the Johansens could altogether take away a sense of strangeness. Colonists, last week, saw Albert Sterner's dramatic Lady Macbeth, the fine portraits by the sisters Emmett: Lydia Field and Leslie. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman, successor of John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in chiseling the heroic Stone Mountain relief, showed Vanity, a bronze figure of a woman with a mirror. These were the work of the native colonists...
...Peachtree Street. Then there were special trains to take everyone out to the foot of Stone Mountain, 18 miles from town. It was the 63rd anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and part of the monster memorial sculptures to the Confederate Armies, carved first by Gutzon Borglum, later by Augustus Lukeman, were ready for unveiling...
Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, to confer...