Talk:Henry Augustus Lukeman

Quote of material appearing in the 1915 NIE entry for Lukeman
The following quote is from: Colby, Frank Moore & Talcott Williams, eds. (1915). "Lukeman, Henry Augustus (1870–)". New International Encyclopedia (2nd ed.), Vol. 14, p. 461, New York: Dodd, Mead, available at, accessed 12 September 2015.

"LUKEMAN, Henby Augustus (1870–). An American sculptor. He was born at Richmond, Va., and studied under Launt Thompson and Daniel Chester French in New York and at the Beaux Arts in Paris under Falgui \e re. Lukeman aided French in his statue "The Republic" at the Chicago Exposition and later acted as his assistant in New York. His independent works include monuments, portrait busts and statues, bas reliefs, and ornamental sculpture. They are architecturally effective and often remarkable in conception, as, e.g., in "Manu the Law Giver of India" on the Appellate Court Building, New York. His portrait statues include those of William McKinley (Adams, Mass.); Robert Livingston (St. Louis); Professor Joseph Henry (Princeton University); "Kit Carson," an equestrian statue (Trinidad, Colo.). For the St. Louis Exposition (1904) he modeled the group "Music" (Festival Hall) and decorative sculpture (Electrical Building). Among his other works are four colossal statues for the Royal Bank, Montreal; four figures for the Brooklyn Institute; and the Soldiers Monument at Somerville, Mass."

This material is provided, so that inline citations to this material can conveniently be added, thus removing some inline tags (and making specific the now general NIE reference).

Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 16:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ Le Prof  Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:29, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Completing and re-formatting of Lukeman citations needed [dated info noted]
The citations in the article are often lacking dates, authors, page numbers, etc. (are generally incomplete), and in some cases are bare URLs. This needs to be corrected, to set a standard for future improvements to the article. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 16:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅, noting in addition that the sources of the article are presently extremely dated (apart from the 2006 NYT which does not speak about Lukeman, all are 1937 or earlier, and most cited sources—15 of 22 inline citations—are from 1915). Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:29, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Dearinger citation content [and recognition of discrepancies with existing unsourced info on early training]
In this citation, currently in further reading:
 * David Bernard Dearinger, ed. (2004) Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 (Volume 1), pp. 123f, New York, NY: Hudson Hills, ISBN 1555950299, see [6] and [7], accessed 12 September 2015.

The following [approximate body of] information is available for use in the article:"Augustus Lukeman was raised in New York, where he is said to have begun lessons at the National Academy and the Cooper Union School at age eleven. However, NAD school registration records do not bear this out. The young Lukeman did work as a studio assistant for Launt Thompson, and he studied anatomy for two years at Bellevue Hospital. In 1890, at a more traditional point of age, he did attend classes at the Academy, registering for the antique school for two years. He went on to study at Columbia University and, for six months, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After his return to the United States, Lukeman was an assistant to Daniel Chester French for fifteen years while simultaneously executing his own commissions. He produced portrait busts and reliefs, but specialized in large-scale monuments. In New York his figures are found on the Customs Building, the Manhattan Appellate Court House, and the Brooklyn Museum. His work on several grandiose memorials perhaps led to his appointment to complete the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, near Atlanta, Georgia, a project begun but then resigned by Gutzon Borglum. Lukeman was criticized for taking over another artist's work; he used Borglum's existing scheme and altered it to include a bas-relief with figures 153 feet tall. Lukeman must have appreciated the work of Cox, for he is known to have possessed a small nude study by him, a work which Cox considered among his best (Cox to Opdyke)."

This information appears explicitly, verbatim, in this reference, where it appears to have been taken directly (and as this is a National Academy webpage, and Dearinger is/was with the National Academy of Design, it can be presumed as being of the same author (rather than being plagiarized).

These sources, as said, appear in the Further reading, but are explained here so that the content can be used to improve the article (with a citable source). Le Prof 71.201.62.200 (talk) 19:58, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ The content in from the 2004 and the mirroring 2015 sources was added. Note two things. First, many of the facts supported were also also supported by the 1915 encyclopedia reference, and so there is some redundancy of citation (that I leave to others to remove, if they desire).


 * Second, sourced text additions were at times difficult to reconcile with earlier unsourced content (especially with regard to his earliest training, see for instance, mention of Cooper Union enrollment. The types of prose like "It is… reported" were used to allow leaving in unsourced earlier text, and distinguishing it from the newly added text, which is sourced, and so is verifiable. Le Prof  71.201.62.200 (talk) 22:35, 12 September 2015 (UTC)