1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Borglum, Solon Hannibal

BORGLUM, SOLON HANNIBAL (1868- ), American sculptor (see 4.250), brother of the foregoing, completed many important statues after 1910, including " God's Command to Retreat" (1911, Napoleon on horseback in a snow drift, bronze); "Jacob Leisler," first governor of New Amsterdam (1911, heroic figure in bronze at New Rochelle, N.Y.); "Reverie of a Pioneer " (colossal equestrian for the Court of Honour, San Francisco Exposition); " Backin' 'Em Up" (1919, four dismounted cavalrymen, with horses); " The Little Lady of the Dew " (unveiled 1920 in the churchyard of St. Mark's in the Bouwerie, New York City); " Inspiration " and " Aspiration " (1920, two statues of Indians, in stone, both at St. Mark's in the Bouwerie). He was Y.M.C.A. secretary with the French army in 1918, won the Croix de Guerre, and later was engaged in educational work with the A.E.F. in France.