Exhibition of sculpture by Gutzon Borglum, Avery Library, Columbia University, February twenty-eight, nineteen fourteen
A 1914 exhibition catalogue printed in New York by the De Vinne press for the Avery Library at Columbia University, presenting sculpture by Gutzon Borglum in photographs of individual works. The pictures show plaster and bronze figures photographed against dark backdrops, including a seated man on a pedestal, a nude female figure on a rock, a rearing horse group, and a rider on horseback titled The Return of the Boer. A designer might take from them the way single sculptures are isolated against dark grounds and lit to bring out the modelling of bodies, muscle and drapery.
