Word: gutzon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall...
...been known in recent artistic history than that which has frustrated the attempts of Southern interests to carve an everlasting memorial to the Confederacy's heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...
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...
...familiar sculpture of Master 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...
...along 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...