| Show rk Sy r 4 y n i S earch r th Ideal Pione er l l' l 7 a H 3 ll r 1 f rv I 1 jr t Motherhood of e o of Country to Be Glorified 11 p ir y by y Wealthy ea Oil Magnate E. E W. W Marland y r pl t y t l j I Who Will Erect Huge Memorial in m mr 7 r i Y Oklahoma After Public Has Picked d f r k a 1 f Winner inner From rom Twelve Models of Heroines Now ib Presented by Leading Sculptors 1 i H r f r s Ss R S V M ti fro Jt The bronze t ft 4 R w o p model from 7 the hand of y t Bry Bryant nt Baker f i an Eng English Ush a t. t 9 4 r R Rr a sculptor n tor A w i won first s 's place in the e 4 New York JI i r t exhibition t f p According r l 4 According to Mr 1 Baker ti the pioneer 4 woman was wasa wasa 2 a a person pride of 4 A y r ra a V V's s resolution y 4 and grace race a. a q r f 4 4 q q K r 3 M s' s The pioneer woman carried life and death in her hands hand s yh r 7 l a child and a gun this idealization b by J John hn G Gregory e or L Y shows Sunbonnets appear in in nine of the twelve figures t r it IM I'M H 1 v By Y IS Isabel sae bel Stephen WHICH type best WHICH type of woma womanhood hood td represents the American pioneer woman 7 This question n will be much discussed by arl are ad critics critics' and connoisseurs during the next three months In the art galleries throughout the country there will be exhibited twelve r bronze models representing the ideals of twelve of the worlds world's greatest sculptors and visitors will be requested to vote for their choice among these statues For at last last the pioneer heroines are to be glorified and no ex ex- expense expense expense pense will be spared in the glorification It will be accomplished by Ernest W. W Marland well known in the oil industry whose sense of equity was shocked by finding frontiersmen at nearly every crossroad along the big trails and no sign of monument to a woman anywhere Mr Marland intends to atone for the slight by erecting the best statue to the sunbonnet woman artistic skill can create and to plant it for all ti time e. e on on one of the Western national highways In order to make sure of getting the best to be had bad the oil man commissioned a dozen prominent sculptors approximately approximately approximately a year ago to prepare each a abronze abronze abronze bronze model from which he may select the most appropriate te one An honorarium of was assured to each com corn Mr Marland thus is pledged to toan toan an out ay of ot of for the privilege t of rejecting all t the e work if none should suit him or for eleven which mu must t be put aside plus the additional substantial cost of a full sized full sized job for forthe forthe the twelfth HE sculptors selected for th the competition competition competition com- com THE petition are Bryant Baker aker John Gregory F. F Lynn Jenkins Mario Korbel Arthur Lee H. H A. A MacNeil iI Maurice Sterne Mahonri Young Wh Wheeler eler Wil Wil- Williams Williams liams A. A Stirling Calder J. J Davidson David David- son and James E. E Fraser To each of these men Mr Marland explained his purpose as follows iS h 4 In the romance of the conquest of the West in jn the tales of danger and hardship and daring there seems to be forgotten one figure one character the character the pioneer woman with the sunbonnet th the Joan of Arc of America To her must be be- accorded equal bravery and courage as much sacrifice and glory as to those heroes lik like Davy Crockett Daniel Boone Boope Bill Cody Bridger and others who have found their permanent pUce pace in the niche of fame This woman of purpose with a love and and devotion to her mate with whom she trudged and toiled with whom she braved the dangers and perils of the wilds and the d desert sert with whom she pushed far forward the fires of civilization civilization civilization tion with whom she braved the scalping knife of the the- savage or the swift torrents torrents tor rents of the stream or the ferociousness of the beast for whom she the mothered that progeny which was later to astound the world with its resource resource- its cour courage ge its that bravery bravery hat woman with witha a sunbonnet on her head and a baby on her ber arm was made of no baser metal than the man Few of us have ever heard or or read of such as Eliza Donner Mary Carmichel Carmichel Carmichel Car Car- michel Mrs Glendenning Mrs D Davies vies and that countless host o of wives mothers and daughters of men who helped make of this country the Gibraltar of freedom and democracy A fitting tribute is paid her by Harry Noyes Pratt who says this of her She held of beauty more more than face lace Or form lorn of body's youthful grace prate Uncouth of dress or rough ough of hand And marked by all the miles s she spanned She stands above the highest here lore The Mother of ot the Pioneer E To the spirit of this heroic woman we wish to erect a fitting memorial Attached was a list of books which were recommended to the sculptors for their research work Whereupon there ensued an enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic activity in hunting up inform a- a tay i tion on the Woman o othe on the part of the twelve elect Con Con- Considering Considering Considering the prominence of these sculptors and the huge prices they re receive receive receive re- re for their masterpieces the tho honorarium of is a mere bagatelle baga- baga telle The real lodestone is the great honor which will go to the he successful one OM as th the statue will rank with Liberty herself as a national monument The model finally chosen it it is said will be reproduced in a heroic size and will stand some to feet high The site chosen for the monument is is in Mr Oklahoma on property belonging to Marland adjacent to a national highway highway highway high high- way once a trail in the Cherokee Strip the last Government land opened to homesteaders That choice will locate the memorial near Ponca Okla the site of the Marland oil ent enterprises I INTERVIEWS INTERVIEWS were obtained for this newspaper with three of the Competing competing ing ing sculptors sculptor on the motivations which inspired their conception of the pioneer woman woman Bryant Bryant Baker John Gregory and F. F Lynn Lyn Jenkins Bryant Baker whose model received the largest number of votes from those visiting the exhibition in New York is isa isa isa a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts London first fo for portraiture portraiture por- por and for design in sculpture and has many not notable ble masterpieces to his credit Though Mr Baker Baker was born in England England Eng Eng- land he has settled definitely in America and he joined the American Army dur- dur the World WarThe War I The stories of the pioneers I in this country always fascinated me meI when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a boy he said when interviewed in the Marlborough Maryborough Studios Studio's s where behas he be has his headquarters I built up a mental picture of those hardy human beings and my model somewhat re resembles resembles resembles re- re the heroic mothers 8 ad as I conceived conceived conceived con con- them in my ply mind at that time What I have tried do is to to symbolize symbolize symbolize sym sym- these women who wanted to carry I I l the traditions and the culture cult of the East into the Civilized West It It was impossible t U a model or any particular particular par par- according to the way I look at it for or the plon pioneering ering period covered so many years A AI I have tried to show the fortitude and and pride of these great women by symbolizing a young woman of some 26 20 or 28 years of age setting off with all her worldly goods in a bundle under her ber arm arm She proudly carries the thea a S 4 ti d b x 4 4 J 9 1 I H. H A. A l MacNeil's eils eil's design shown above was awarded second place by N New ew York art Five of the mode modeled ed figures bore firearms and this one a short-handled short ax axt axI I l 1 t family Bible which records her marriage marriage mar mar- ringe and the births and de deaths of her family it typifies her wonderful faith fait in in facing an unknown land full of unknown unknown unknown un un- un- un known terrors In her carriage I l' l put strength courage and a firm determination tomake to tomake make a n f future ture for her progeny progeny The br breezes off the forest and the mountains billow V her skirts Along at her side sidewalks sidewalks walks her sturdy your young g son It was undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- mighty hard to get or make clothes for the pioneer youngsters youngsters- they probably wore their fathers' fathers suits cut down down but but isn't it the innate pride of every mother to make her children look as well as possible No one can read deeply into the stories sto sto- ries ries of the pioneer days without coming across an undesirable feminine element clement They are always to be found in inthe n the dance halls balls and tagging behind any migration tion They belonged to the pioneer period hut but ut they were not the pioneer women Because of the great hardships the disappointments s and the tragedies en encountered encountered encountered en- en countered on on every side the survivors represented magnificent stock the very finest in in the world Had they not been so fine they never could have bave succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- in carrying along their heir heir culture into those great wild spaces They would have falle v J by the way John Gregory is is th only sculptor who shows the husband as well as as the child The husband lies dead dead nt at the feet of the sunbonnet woman woman and nd nero her infant son an arrow piercing his his heart heart The young widow grasps the thc gun which has fallen alIen from his dead hands and peers undismayed at her enemies MR R. R GREGORYS GREGORY'S art education in- in eluded three e years at the Ecole des Beaux Beaux Arts in Paris in the Atelier Mercier Mercier Mercier Mer- Mer cier and owns a a fellowship of the American Ameri Ameri- can Academy in Rome Among his more works is Lancelot important a memorial memorial me me- me morial relief bas-relief to William Corcoran Eustis which is js in the Corcoran Gallery G Gallery Gal Gal- l- l lery in Washington D D. D DC C. C On the On-the the the day of the interview for this article he had just completed a pediment in colored colored colored col col- ored terra cotta for t the thel e l Phi Philadelphia adelphia Museum of Fine Arts I have represented the pioneer woman first of all as a wife wIfe ready to undertake the responsibility of carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing on when her husband is taken fro from her explained Mr Gregory The t f j sym symbol b 0 I 0 of f b her er mo motherhood tb er h 00 d. d is trea treated t e d aJ aa aa y ya fi i ia a secondary motive I I 1 believe that it is the perfect wife 1 who makes the best mother so far as that is concerned The woman who A r makes it her first duty to see to the wel welfare i fare and of her husband t will naturally make a good mot mother er 3 Jf Certainly the sunbonnet woman woman's Y than her s 1 was thinking mOre of her mate children when she followed him into into ti danger She was was a very devoted person very noble in face of danger danger dan dan- Z ger but all records show how v she started off across the prairies with very I little provision for possible progeny t N She lacked the imagination of the modern modern modern mod- mod i ern mother Yet we have w women me with the pioneer spirit today just as in in that 1 period This was proved during the v 1 J war when women cheerfully went into A I the f factories and took their i tf f mens men's places without a murmur N n After t rea reading i g everything g I could get et v to women of the pioneer PlO pie 7 hold of pertaining women K Kneer r neer days I ca carite a to the conclusion that J fi it was was the sacrament of marriage which I r J most distinguished these civilized s set set- t. t i tiers from the peoples they displaced M 1 hence I chose chos wifehood as the dominating J 0 1 ing theme Even E the Io ing mother of today en j loving jazz r f exercises far more intelligent care over ther t ti her children than t the e go good d' d old old old-fasli- fas v i j Toned mother of of yesteryear I 1 I. I love lova L r j j mothers in all guises I loved I I her when r she was a worm and never and nd never turned and i 1 I love her playing she has independence vi 1 I- I x hasn't The me sunbonnet which she got woman was the mother of the Wes West but she wasn't an ideal mother for her ber children 5 f r 1 F F. F L Lynn nn Jenkins who WIlO received received illS nis his his' a art arc rt rl f f r 1 F F. F L Lynn nn Jenkins who WIlO received received illS nis his his' a art arc rt rl f education at the Royal Academy Schools 7 1 in London Paris and Rom twice silver y of the Royal Academy in London Lon Lon- V don don and g gold ld med list of P Paris ris St St. t. t t r Louis and Rome has many heroic pieces pieces' pieces jj h hof 1 of sculpture in Europe to his credit cr He Ha J f t. t J is it responsible for the fountains and large groups 10 in the garden of Mrs E E. E T. T Stotesbury at nt Chestnut Hill Pa v J i ithe the bust bust of the late John McFadden l v cc made to the collection of British British Brit- Brit 1 ish paintings of the eighteenth century I I S Sin in in in- in tho the Philadelphia Art Museum and anda a a. i J bronze statue of Charles Custis Harrison Harri Harri- t son in the Dormitory Triangle t tr iM in Pennsylvania University g if i r l. r MR R. R JENKINS ENKINS has executed many im im- fP V f and busts in Eng- Eng r h f. f land India and nd South Africa as well as V y ff in this country His Work also V appears 1 A 1 11 in the Metropolitan Museum in New in-New New ew 8 vv v r York t rv V Mi My research pioneer work on the pioneer woman woman revealed her as as' belonging to the f finest Nordic type he s said id She was N s 's 1 potentially the mother of th the real Ameri Amen y J Ican I can race The American girl who is r so greatly admired all over the world L' L 7 x is the the- descendant n ant of the sunbonnet r i f fT X fF woman she she she-is is not of the large Ea Eastern tern if t cities for OI the East ast js 1 3 Cosmo Cosmopolis s and amI y dt- dt ij l'- l' M the true tru type IS is individual I J t All An the big big pioneer I. I women were g gentlewomen women of culture and o oy i. i I d y- y family Many of them vent Went from Pennsylvania Penn- Penn I fj rf sylvania and Virginia It is a great 5 mistake e to t think ink of them as roving peas peas- I v t ants They i inspired their j r fJ and brought n up and educated their V f chil children r n. n They wets were to we comrades as well as wives wives' v and mo mothers hers and certainly exhibited exhibited ex ex- Z I hib ted a n Ii lioness ness quality in guarding g their young youn 10 in moments of peril t. t rEll You cannot read extensively of the of-the the 6 pioneering days without t coming across f. f t accounts where these brave women faced fa ed hundreds of savages and so surprised i 1 them by their Courage that they fled They are arc responsible for the vi vital t al stock I c in in America not the mothers of the East l where so many nationalities are arc fused 5 ti The pioneer d days ays jn in America show 2 woma womanhood hood at its broadest and most t i significant expressions expression u 1 i Mr I Marland who is responsible for f r this movement to place the pioneer pioneer i iw w woman man on a pedestal has bas great resources resources re re- sources at his command for his company rey y r nt J is said to be the largest independent I oil producer and refiner in the w world rId Copyright l JI Public Ledger Ledger- J. 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