Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-16 | Page 5 | Brigham Young Statue Set for National Hall of Fame

Brigham Young Statue Set For National Hall of Fame 1 Utah's empty nlchs In ths hall of fame In Washington, D. C will soon be filled. Word was received la Salt Laki . City Saturday that the long-awaited long-awaited statue of Brighsm Toung, carved from pur whie Carrara marble, has been completed In Rome and shipped to the United States. The status will arrive in New York City July 29 and be taken to ths nation's capitol to be placed la the hall of fame. The sculptor of ths statue, praised ss a work of art by the world's top critics st a recent Italian snowing, is Mahoarl M. Toung, grandson of the great Mormon leader. Gains Kiiaena Sculptor Toung has gained world-wide reuuwii for his Seagull monument on Temple square and ths This Is the Place" monument near the entmnoe to Emigration canyon. I Working la Rome, It took Mr. 1 Toung more than a year to finish the statue. A plaster model of the 1 statu eras on exhibition In Salt ' Lake City during the Centennial celebration. In the 7 -foot statue, Brigham Toung Is shown ss a leader, colonist colo-nist snd statesman. Explaining hta design of ths statue. Sculptor Toung axplains that Brigham Toung was depicted as a young man of action In ths "This Is the Place" monument Strive far Dignity In this new statu, I attempted to i show Brigham Toung as a statesman, loader and prophet" i he explained. "I strlvsd for a dignity dig-nity and solemn to show Brigham Brig-ham Toung a a gnat lee der directing di-recting his people by advice counsel ! and ths authority Invested In him." Although the actual carving of ( the statue took little more than a year. Mr. Toung hsd collected ma- i terlal, photographs and notes for the work of art (or several decades. Hs designed the statu from hundred hun-dred of photograph of the Mormon Mor-mon loader. Now In Paris, Mr. Toung Is making plans to visit Utah before i the end of the summer.