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...Concord Minute Man," and his six figures on the doors of the Boston Public Library. According to the classifications made by Professor Post, French belongs to the "more American" group of sculptors; the continental influence is less discernable in his work than in statues by men like Gutzon Borglum and Barnard, who were strongly affected by the formful litheness of Rodin, the magnificent Frenchman...
...that the innumerable explanations of the Willkie victory converged at a single point. That point was Franklin Roosevelt. To Cartoonist Harry Bressler of the New Haven Journal-Courier, it was simple: he pictured a triumphant, rearing-back Roosevelt looming over the delegates like one of mountain-spoiling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's gigantic stone visages. More complex was the realization that more than any other candidate Wendell Willkie stood as a symbol of opposition to the New Deal -not to its ideas, to which he subscribed far more than many a Republican present, but as a businessman who had best...
Many a man knows at least one statue he would like to down, but it usually takes a war or a revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
...crowd, many of them oldsters, peered at 255 sane exhibits, murmured brightly: "Isn't it wonderful to see real painting again?" First of the eleven prizes went to Chauncey Ryder, 71, for a harmless landscape; other prizes to sound, conservative Frank W. Benson, 77, mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum, 68. Herself a little dim about who had won the prizes, Donor Logan purred comfortably: "But they're all my old friends...
Begun with State funds in 1927 and carried forward by Congressional appropriations, the Mount Rushmore Memorial has long been Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore...