Statues - Hither & Thither

 

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• Statue of Henry Ward Beecher on a concrete pedestal. 1914. Original: Brooklyn, Plymouth Church
  

  PURCHASING THE SLAVES' FREEDOM Gutzon Borglum Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 - 1887. A fervent abolitionist, this influential minister purchased the freedom of slave children. Commissioned by Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, NY.

  Henry Ward Beecher (Litchfield, Connecticut, 1813 - Brooklyn, New York 1887), prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century (Wikipedia). He was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. At the foot of the statue two small African-American children crouching nearby. It is presumed that the girl child is "Pink", the slave child freed through auction by Beecher in the Plymouth Church.

• Statue of John William Mackay, on a concrete pedestal, signed: Gutzon Borglum. 1908. Original: Reno, Nevada, Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering

  John William Mackay (Dublin, Ireland 1831-July 20, 1902), American capitalist. With his partners, fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, James C. Flood, and William S. O'Brien, he discovered in 1873 the great ore body known as the 'big bonanza' in Nevada, an orebody which yielded in 1877 nearly $190,000,000 altogether. The four-way partnership, although formally called Flood and O'Brien, was more commonly known as the Bonanza firm. Together they also established the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco (Wikipedia)

• High-relief of Lee, Jefferson Davis, and 'Stonewall' Jackson, 1923-25. Original: Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia.

  Bronze model of the Confederate Memorial Carving in Stone Mountain, largest bas relief sculpture in the world. It depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson (and their favorite horses, Blackjack, Traveller, and Little Sorrel, respectively). Borglum started in 1923 but abandoned the project in 1925, and the sculptor Augustus Lukeman continued until 1928, when further work stopped for thirty years. In 1963, Walker Hancock was selected to complete the carving, and work began in 1964. The carving was completed by Roy Faulkner. The carving was considered complete in 1972. The entire carved surface measures 12,000 m², about the size of three football fields. The carving of the three men towers 120 m above the ground and measures 27 x 58 m.

  Jefferson F. Davis (Fairview, Kentucky, 1808 - New Orleans 1889), leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865 (Wikipedia).
  Robert E. Lee (Stratford Hall, Virginia, 1807 - Lexington, Virginia, 1870), commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War (Wikipedia).
  Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (Clarksburg, West-Virginia, 1824 - Guinea Station, Virginia 1863), Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee (Wikipedia).

Sculptor

• John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (St. Charles, Idaho, 1867 - Chicago, Illinois 1941), American sculptor, famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore and the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta; father of Lincoln Borglum (Wikipedia).

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