Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-26
Roomy Study to Be Erected
at MountainSide Where
Models VIII Be on Display
for Public Inspection

Gutzon Borglum, sculptor Of the
Stone Mountain Confederate Memo
rial, is building at the mountain a
large study in which he and his as
sistant will make the models of all
groups and figures to be carved on
the granite precipice,
The models will be made in very
large dimensions, Mr.. Borglum
states, and the public will be allowed
to see them in process of construc-
ton as we'll as after they have been
completed The studio was designed
by Mr.. Borglum with this in view.
1t will have a wide aisle running
around three sides. Visitors passing
through the aisle can get good
view of virtually everything in the
studio, without interfering with the
sculptor.
Mr.. Borglum already has made.
in his studio in Stamford, Conn,
model of the central group of fig
ures to be carved on the mountain.
This stands about feet in height
and twenty feet in length. Photo
graphs were made of it: lantern
slides We're made from the photo
graphic negatives; and the slides in
the giant projection lamp in the
present studio have supplied the
means of placing on the great gran
ite wall the line drawing of several
figures already there
A second clay model will be made
of the central group, Mr.. Borglum
states, on much larger scale. 1t
probably will go as large as thirty
feet in height. The models of other
figures will be in similar scale. Each
model will be scaled to multiple of
the dimensions of the figures to be
carved on the mountain. The gran
tie will be five times as large, or
six or seven times as large depend
ing on the exact scale decided on),
as the clay model figures.
Models To Be In Sections
When Mr.. Borglum and his under
study and their assistants are ready
to place the finishing touches on a
figure, after the preliminary rough
ing out has been done, the model of
that figure will be cut into sections,
somewhat like the sections of a puz-
zle. The sculptor will have with him
on a temporary platform erected on
the precipice the section of the
model corresponding to the section
of the figure which he is finishing.
When he finishes the head of Gen.
Robert Z. Lee, for instance, he will
have mounted by his side on the
platform, high on the cliff, the clay
model hea dof General Lee, and the
features Of the model will be repro
duced in granite, each feature in
scale.
The making of these odels, and
their separation into sections, and
their removal to the platforms on
the precipice, will furnish the pub
lie an intensely interesting insight
into the methods to be employed in
| carving the worlds most colossal
monument.
| Ever since the projection lamp
was installed in the present studio
several weeks ago visitors have
| flocked to the mountain every
night to see the figures thrown upon
| the mountain. The projection lamp
will be removed to the new and larg-
er studio when it is finished and the
projection from the new location, on
the knoll back of the present studio,
will be much more effective.
In the meantime, the pictures are
| being shown on the mountain every
night, beginning about 1870 o'clock
and the public is invited to see
| them.
Since the beginning of actual
carving last Monday, when Cover
nor Trinkle of Virginia came here
and participated in the Virginia Day
| celebration, two pneumatic drills
have been going in full blast on the
mountain. Another drill is to be put
| to work as soon as the funds of the
association permit. The plan is to
| push the work forward with all
! possible speed. Mr. BorgIum hopes
10 have the head and shoulders of
General Lee finished by fall.
Hosting Machinery Ready
| Progress of the work can be inn
mensely speeded up by the special.
ly designed hosting machinery
| which has been built by the Brown
Hosting Machinery company, of
| Cleveland, and donated to the asso-
| citation through the interest of that
| firm and d group of Cleveland en-
| gineers. This machinery represents
a donation of $250,00O.
Notice was received by the asso-
| citation last week that the machin-
cry is ready for shipment. The as
ISOLATION will have it shipped and
| placed on the mountain as soon as
| the funds in hand are sufficient to
| keen the machinery in operation.