Solon Borglum Letters to Emma Borglum and Children, 1918 July-August

American portraitists, realists, impressionists, and abstract artists that studied, lived, and worked in Paris, France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote letters home to family and friends describing their lives there. One of these artists was Solon Borglum, and here you will find letters dating from his military service in France attached to the Third and Fifth French Army during World War I. At that time, he was the Director of Sculpture at the specially-organized American Expeditionary Forces Art Training Center.
Sculptor and teacher Solon H. Borglum (1868-1922) worked as a ranch hand while studying painting, and then as an artist before traveling to Paris to further his art education. Borglum studied sculpture at the Académie Julian under Denys Puech and won numerous awards for works exhibited both in France and the US. After returning to the US, he received several commissions for monuments and memorials while continuing to exhibit his work.
Explore the fully digitized Solon H. Borglum and Borglum family papers on the Archives of American Art website!