Word: lukeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studios loosed their thunder. Meetings were planned, resolutions framed. August Lukeman, sculptor of the Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy, was first to be heard...
When Sculptor Gutzon Borglum quarreled with the committee in charge of the Memorial which is being cut into the front of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Mar. 2 et seq.) and Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson to me in the slightest." . . . And an old squabble lifted its head again...
...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
...Sculptor Lukeman, 54, is famed for his insistence on "100% Americanism." He is, like Borglum, robust. His works include: Statues of William McKinley for Adams, Mass., and Dayton...