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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...
...destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side...
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...
Moukbil Kemal Bey arrived, recently, in Manhattan to secure sketches and designs for the Mustafa Kemal statue. Naturally he journeyed to Stamford, Conn., and there consulted the famed U. S. sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and received from him a sketch which, with others, he will take back to Turkey for approval. The definite acceptance of any plan will not be made for the present; but there is every prospect, it was said, of a $20,000 statue of the great Mustafa, "made in America," adorning the city of Angora...