Word: lukeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek the expression...
...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 model, all working models necessary to that date, removed 25,000 tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed the head of General Jackson, roughing out the head of President Davis ... at a cost of $118,822.61. Mr. Lukeman in 40 months has completed his model and cut the bust of General Lee at a cost of $1,421,665." Mr. Venable referred doubters to the audits...
...Sculptor Lukeman felt inclined to sue Mr. Venable. He said he had completed one third of the central group of three horses and riders for $180,000, that he could complete the rest within six months for $75,000. With the frantic ire of the artist whos work is criticized before it is finished, he called attention to the fact that most of General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder...
...Sculptor Borglum referred, last fortnight, to Sculptor Lukeman's work as "the hole blown in the mountain since my absence...