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The "Pioneer" is by Solon Borglum. The minor sculpture here consists of A. Stirling Calder's attractive "Flower Girl," repeated in the niches along the loggia; dignified Lions, by Albert Laessle, flanking the three portals; and again Carl Gruppe's "The Fairy," atop the Italian Towers. The Tower of Jewels, and the Fountain of Energy
Opposite Festival Hall, between Palaces of Varied Industries and Mines. Details different from Court of Palms; ornament richer. Palaces at sides of court: to the west, Manufactures; to the east, Varied Industries. Italian towers, by Kelham, same feeling. Outlines on top different from those in Court of Palms. "The American Pioneer," equestrian statue at entrance, by Solon Borglum, of New York.
His many very interesting fountain figures seen at the Panama, Pacific International Exposition have won deserved praise from the many who have seen them. Solon Borglum Solon Borglum was born in 1868 at Ogden, Utah. The greater part of his early life was spent on the plains of Nebraska, lassoing wild horses and photographing at the same time every detail of this strange life upon his brain.
The chief charm of this little lady is her simplicity. Mrs. Burroughs uses such beauty of line, such sweet language to tell her story. The American Pioneer Solon Hamilton Borglum, Sculptor
They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, and the chord has been struck, the wire of thought, that reaches to the land of the sufferers, announces that they are rescued. Then their anxieties are dispelled; and at even they join in the dance at the feast given in the great hall at Börglum.
It would, perhaps, be well to substitute this for the usual method of evolving them from old stage material or newspaper clippings. There is in the Metropolitan Museum a noble modern group, the Mares of Diomedes, by the aforementioned Gutzon Borglum. It is full of material for the meditations of a man who wants to make a film of a stampede.
At Börglum it was warm and cheerful in the heated rooms, while cold winter raged without, when a piece of news was brought to the bishop: "Jens Glob, of Thyland, has come back, and his mother with him." Jens Glob laid a complaint against the bishop, and summoned him before the temporal and the spiritual court. "That will avail him little," said the bishop.
The bishop himself is to read the mass, and consequently will journey from Börglum to Thyland; and this is known to Jens Glob. Moorland and meadow are covered with ice and snow. The marsh will bear horse and rider, the bishop with his priests, and armed men. They ride the shortest way, through the waving reeds, where the wind moans sadly.
Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and relations avoid her as a plague and a pestilence!" "What will not bend must break," said the Bishop of Borglum And all forsake the widow; but she holds fast to her God. He is her helper and defender.
The bronze group shows a segment of this circle. The whirlwind is at its height. The mares are wild to taste the flesh of Hercules. And let no group of horses ever run faster than these of Borglum. An occasional hint of a Michelangelo figure or gesture appears for a flash in the films. Young artist in the audience, does it pass you by?
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