The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-09
WHO MADE STATUES
IN HALL OF FAME?
GutzOn BOrglum Says 1t Was
Not Men Whose Names Ap-
pear ms Sculptors.
REAL ARTISTS STARVING
Contractors Get Money and
HOnOr-Maine MOnu-
mcnt "FOOlish."

Nearly 80 per cent OF all the monu-
ments and statues in the United States,
including those In Statuary Hall. Wash
ington, were not made by those whose
names they bear said Gutzon Borglum,
the sculptor, yesterday. 1.-THE artists who
made them are probably starving some
where Poverty forced them to let their
brain children bear the names of foster
parents"
This statement. and others condemning
the commercialization OF art, the injustice
to genius and the academic restrictions on
freedom of expression. was part of an
address ON art and it's relation to woman
suffrage made yesterday before the
woman's Political Union in the Berkeley
Theatre.
The sculptor said In part:
This nation has stood for freedom.
We have written the word Freedom in
large letters across our skies. We have
invited the courageous TO come here and
give expression TO their ideas. Now We
see we have no such thing AS freedom.
one must kowtow 10 certain clique.
one must get In til circle to get recog-
milton. Genius knocks on the door and
gets no answer but Its own echo.
Right here In your city / have known
two or three sculptors who committed
suicide. They had been doing other mems
work. the other men getting the credit
and they getting barely enough money TO
exist. / know that most Of the work of
statuary in this country has not been
done by the men whose 1lames are on them.
Il received letter recently from IA
friend OF mine in Washington asking me
II had submitted sketches for certain
monument the Government IL 20 have built.
replied ! had not been asked to. but
| added that had received II letter from
a tombstone maker asking me my price
upon certain work OF a similar kind.
THAT IL how America gets her art.
Contracting Arms get the contract and tns
honor starving artists do the work. The
Government pays for sculpturing thou
sands OF dollars Of which the sculptor gets
a hundred or so.
Nowadays It is the fashion to build
monuments We are building them for
ianybody. everybody and nobody. But ther"
ara NJ monuments built to those men
who made our country. ! think IL was
foolish to have built IA monument to the
Maine. The soldiers were asleep and
knew nothing.
The Titanic would have been a fitting
subject for a monument There We nave
a great spectacle. men showing the besl
that is In them. giving those they held
dearest. their women and children. TO the
care of the sea. while they awaited death
AS TO woman suffrage. I can't see now
men can quarrel over that. In fact. Dc
not think men do quarrel about IL u
seems 10 me to be merely a political issue
canr conceive ~ men denying 10 theiI
mothers or sisters the right TO express
,hsi~ op,nions on any subject about
which they themselves have an opinion
, our education system to-day also -
foolish and narrow. We separate peaut!'
-ul little things and divide them into boys
and girls But what do want you wome'
to do when you get the ballot Is 10 take
the vote away from some men VINO are
urst TO use IL