Word: borglum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor (TIME, Mar. 2), hurried along a stony path, mallet in hand. At his heels skulked one J. C. Tucker, accessory. Wrath was printed upon the Borglum countenance, sympathy upon that of Tucker. At the end of the path, they came to a small hut-the studio wherein, for many months, Sculptor Borglum has worked with plans, models of the relief of Generals Jackson, Lee and their armies which is to be chiseled into the rock at Stone Mountain, Atlanta, as a memorial to the arms of the South (TIME...
Other feet approached the hut.Into view came certain breathless gentlemen of the law with yellow papers in their hands. They knew that the Stone Mountain Memorial Association had that morning held a meeting, canceled Borglum's contract, ousted him because he "had done no work, was antagonistic, glory-seeking, hard to deal with and under delusions of grandeur." The papers they carried were orders restraining Borglum from removing or damaging any of his models. They tried the door of the hut; it was locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment...
When members of the Memorial Association heard that Borglum had smashed his models, they declared that it was "the act of a hoodlum, a vandal." They filed suit against him for $50,000, issued a warrant for his arrest, charged him with committing a malicious mischief. The constables of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were furnished descriptions of mustachioed, baldheaded, large-eared Borglum and Accessory Tucker. The hunt began, continued for two days. Excited loafers from the depot declared that a man of Borglum's kind had boarded a train for Cincinnati; a garage keeper...
From Atlanta came a statement of Colonel Hollins Randolph, President of the Memorial Association. Said he: "For more than a year the greatest problem of the Stone Mountain Memorial has been the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum. . . . He loafed on the job. . . . It has been extremely difficult to get him to do any work at all on the mountain, notwithstanding the large amounts of money paid him. His main desire seems to be to get his name in the newspapers as often as possible...
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was born in Idaho, studied art in San Francisco, in Paris, in Spain. His exhibitions in the U. S. went without recognition until, in London, the Duchess of Manchester lauded his statues and water-colors of the American Indians. He harnessed fame to his able statues of wild horses, won the gold medal in the St. Louis Exhibition of 1903, completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always...