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...book begins with a preface by mountain-carving Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in which he writes: "Mrs. Logan has said: 'Art is colossal. . . .'" This is followed by a few brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance...
...wealthiest of women artists, Sculptress Huntington is the wife of learned Hispanophile Archer Milton Huntington, son of oldtime Railroad Promoter Collis Potter Huntington. Always shy of publicity, Sculptress Huntington worked first with Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and H. A. McNeil. She has always been an animal sculptor by choice, but three human subjects have also occupied her. Every bus rider on Manhattan's Riverside Drive knows Mrs. Huntington's equestrian statue of Joan of Arc. There are other Huntington Joans in Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at Gloucester, Mass.; San Francisco and Blois, France. Dianas...
...Gutzon Borglum's son James Lincoln...
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...
...arose and said: "This memorial. ... I gladly accept on behalf of the U. S. As we look back I think that we would choose the word 'sincerity' as fitting him most of all." Thus was honor done to a dead states man and to a living sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, present in the drizzle with wife, son and daughter. Bryan is the sixth hero whom he has immortalized in Washington.* A chance for him to do a seventh hero ended lately when the House killed Senate Joint Resolution 21, permitting the erection of a Borglum statue to Colonel Robert...