Show 1 BORGlUM HAS ALIEN ALIENI I NAME BUT UT HES HE'S ANH AN H AMERICAN Storm Cent Center r of Airplane J Controversy Born in Idaho NEW EW YORK vorn May la t- t IS John John Gulzon Gutzon Gutzon Gut Gut- zon de dc la Ja a Borglum nUl may h vo a foreign sounding name but hes he's an L' L American lIe He was vas born orn In Idaho went to school Jn Sn Kansas haisa and studied z art In iii San Francisco Ills His father Cather I was was a doctor and was practicing his prof profession In the half haJt wilderness s of ot Idaho when Gutzon Gulzon was born bom In Jn 1876 A more than a year later Gutzon's brother Solon Hannibal Hannibal Hannibal Han Han- was Horn born at Ogden Utah Both Roth Bothof of at these boys bors grew to be distinguished sculptors As far as known Solon Hannibal I has stuck to tho the studio but Borglum recently branched out as an Investigator hives hives- ligator and of cf the official j handling han han- idling of ot airplane production In 1890 the Idaho youth found Cound his bis way to Paris where he continued continued contin contin- 1 his bis art studies Ho lIe used the theU U brush and the chisel and In 1892 gave ave the first exhibition of his hIM work lie Le gained early recognition In h hd had bad the audacity one audacity one one of his bis prime e- e characteristics to to offer a 3 one-man one 4 exhibition In London Yes and London London Loni Lon Lon- i don took the man from Idaho serl- serl J and gave g-avo him a fine line push i along tho the road to tame lame j h t Then Borglum the painter was j overshadowed b by Borglum BorSum the i I for tor He lie made those colossal figures of oC the thc twelve apostles for tor the Cathedral Cathedral Cathedral Ca Ca- thedral of St S1 John tho the I DI Divine 10 in I New ew York bo ho made the Sheridan monument that you OU see in Washington Washing Washing- 1 ton he be made the great j of ot Lincoln Lin Lin- coIn coln in the national capitol he made I Ithe the wonderful Mares Marcs of Diomede Inthe in j J the Metropolitan Museum of or Art It was Gutzon Borglum who accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac the commission to convert con the face lace of Stone mountain near At Atlanta Atlanta At- At lanta into a great memorial of the South during durin the Civil CI war It is to I contain more moro than 2000 figures of men who served ened In the Confederacy and will require eight years rears for Cor its completion Just why Borglum should la lay down the chisel and the mallet and tal take e U up the pen of investigation isn't clear I The Tho coming comin official inquiry into his censures of oC the department of oC airplane airplane air air- plane production ma may uncover 1 the missing links In the as as well as other details that will vill perhaps be beof be beof of general pu public inter interest st st. I |