Word: lukeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
...Sculptor Lukeman's work was not cut out for him. For three years he has been cutting it. With scaffolds and staccato electric drills his pygmy assistants have swarmed over the face of Stone Mountain, moulding the gigantic nose, beard, shoulders of General Lee. Often on the plains below has walked Samuel H. Venable of Atlanta. He is the spokesman of the Venable heirs who donated the memorial site...
...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...
...Stockbridge. Not even the 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...
...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...