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==Later life== In 1898, Borglum married, and Solon and his wife, Emma (née Vignal),<ref name="fa/LoC/shB">{{cite web |last1=Borglum |first1=Solon Hannibal |title=Solon Hannibal Borglum papers, 1886-1928 |url=https://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMferDsc04.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms011086&_start=1&_lines=125 |website=hdl.loc.gov |access-date=28 August 2024 |date=1969}}</ref> spent the summer of 1899 at the [[Crow Creek Reservation]] in [[South Dakota]]. Though he later lived in [[Paris]] and [[New York City]] and achieved a reputation as one of America's notable sculptors, it was his depictions of [[frontier]] life, and especially his experience with [[cowboy]]s and [[native Americans in the United States|Native American]] peoples, which was the basis of his reputation.<ref>[http://nbmaa.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/solon-hannibal-borglum-sculptor-of-the-prairie/ ''Solon Hannibal Borglum: Sculptor of the Prairie''] [[New Britain Museum of American Art]]</ref> In 1901, Solon and his wife, Emma had a son, Paul Arnold Borglum.<ref name="DAM/d-1968-11">{{cite web |title=Deaths |url=https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1968/11/1/deaths |website=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine |access-date=28 August 2024 |date=November 1968 |quote=The Complete Archive}}</ref><ref name="cornell/Register_1926">{{cite web |title=1925-1926 |url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/22320/2/Register_1925_26.pdf |website=The Register |publisher=Cornell eCommons |access-date=28 August 2024}}</ref> On 9 December 1903, Solon and his wife, Emma had a daughter, Monica (née Borglum) Davies.<ref name="LoC/mm77013292">{{cite web |title=Solon Hannibal Borglum papers, |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/mm77013292/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |access-date=28 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="aaa.si/MBD">{{cite web |title=Oral history interview with Monica Borglum Davies, 1990 May 8-August 27 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-monica-borglum-davies-11636 |website=www.aaa.si.edu [[Archives of American Art]] |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> In 1906, Borglum moved to the [[Silvermine, Connecticut|Silvermine]] neighborhood of [[New Canaan, Connecticut]], where he helped found the "[[Silvermine, Connecticut#Silvermine Art Guild|Knockers Club]]" of artists. His brother, Gutzon, lived in nearby [[Stamford, Connecticut]] from 1910 to 1920.<ref>Davies, pp. 182-84.</ref> In 1911, Borglum was elected into the [[National Academy of Design]] as an Associate member.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/ |title=National Academicians | National Academy | National Academy Museum |access-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314023614/http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/ |archive-date=2016-03-14 }}</ref> During [[World War I]], Borglum was in France, serving as secretary of the YMCA, and then taught sculpture at the [[American Expeditionary Forces]] Art Training Center in {{ill|Bellevue (Hauts-de-Seine)|fr|Bellevue (quartier de Meudon)}}, [[Seine-et-Oise]],<ref name="obUP/AEF-ATC-1919-6">{{cite web |author1=France Army |author2=United States Army |title=Report of the American Expeditionary Forces Art Training Center, Bellevue, Seine-et-Oise, March-June, 1919 |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha011715558 |website=[[The Online Books Page]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |date=June 1919}}</ref> outside Paris.<ref name="NAD/shB">{{cite web |title=Solon Hannibal Borglum |url=https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/people/1529/solon-hannibal-borglum |website=nationalacademy.emuseum.com |publisher=[[National Academy of Design]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Circa 1918, in New York City, he opened a second<ref name="PM/shB">{{cite web |title=Solon Borglum |url=https://phippenartmuseum.org/project/solon-borglum/ |website=[[Prescott, Arizona#Places of interest and culture|Phippen Museum]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |date=23 April 2020}}</ref> studio<ref name="SI/shB">{{cite web |title=Solon H. Borglum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/solon-h-borglum-509 |website=americanart.si.edu [[American Art Museum]] |publisher=[[Smithsonian]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and established the [[American School of Sculpture]].<ref>Davies, pp.219-25.</ref> He ran the school and gave many lectures on art until his death after an [[appendectomy]] complicated by his war wounds<ref>{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/01/31/109336514.pdf |publisher=New York Times |date=Jan 31, 1922 |title=Solon H. Borglum Dies After Operation}}</ref> in January 1922.<ref>Davies, p. 242.</ref> His legacy was carried on by his wife Emma until her death in 1934, at which point his daughter Monica and her husband, A. Mervyn Davies,<ref name="nyT/AMD">{{cite news |title=A. Mervyn Davies, an Author And Ex‐Secretary for Pulitzer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/25/archives/a-mervyn-davies-an-author-and-exsecretary-for-pulitzer.html |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 December 1976}}</ref> oversaw the exhibition of his artwork. In 1974 they published his biography ''Solon H. Borglum: A Man Who Stands Alone''. Borglum's papers are held at the [[Archives of American Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/solon-h-borglum-and-borglum-family-papers-6772|title = A Finding Aid to the Solon H. Borglum and Borglum family papers, 1864-2002 | Digitized Collection}}</ref> and the Library of Congress.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/mm77013292|title=Solon Hannibal Borglum papers}}</ref>
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