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2 unusual facts about Solon Borglum


Solon Borglum

Two of Borglum's sculptures, Inspiration and Aspiration, which depict Native American men, stand in the front courtyard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, flanking the front gate.

Borglum received several major public commissions, including an equestrian monument of General John B. Gordon for the grounds of the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta (1907), one of Rough Rider Buckey O'Neill for the plaza in front of the courthouse in Prescott, Arizona (1907), and The Pioneer, which was erected in the Court of Honor at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915).


Art Academy of Cincinnati

Louis Rebisso (1837–1899) sculptor and teacher.whose students at CAA include William Jacob Baer, Solon Borglum, Janet Scudder, Mary Chase Perry and Eli Harvey.


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