Life in Bronze: Lawrence M. Ludtke, Sculptor

Index

119 index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate photographs. A. Contini and Son, 33–35 abstract art, 4, 6, 18 Accademia dell’Arte del Disegno, 5, 6 Air Force Cross, 83 Air Force Thunderbirds, 26 Air Gardens of the Air Force Academy, 68, 85 Alamo, 6, 81 Alamo Cenotaph, 6, 18 Alkek, Albert, 59 Alkek Hospital wing (MD Anderson Cancer Center), 59 American Renaissance, 5–6 Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 83 Antietam National Battlefield, 54–55 ARCH 406 (Goodnight/Ludtke), 44, 92–94, 93, color insert armature for sculptures, 23, 33, 61, 64 Associated Student Government (Texas State University), 63, 97 Augusta Golf and Gardens, 51–52 Bartley, Frank, 97 baseball career of Ludtke, xiii, 9–14, 24 bas-reliefs, 41, 41, 42, 59 Battle of Goliad, 81 Battle of San Jacinto, 32, 81 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, xii Bertelli, Riccardo, 32 Bible, 3 birth of Ludtke, 9 Bonham, James B., 5–6 Borglum, Gutzon, 5–7, 80 Bowie, Jim, 5, 6 Brig. Gen. James Robinson Risner (Ludtke), 4, 24–27, 68–69, 71, 83–87, 84 Bronco Buster (Remington), 33 Brooklyn Dodgers, xiii, 11, 11–13 Brothers Again (Ludtke), 46–50, 49, 79, 79–81, 80, color insert Brown, Bobby, 13–14 Burnside, Ambrose, 54–55 Burnside’s Bridge (Ludtke), 54–55, 55 Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke, 80 Cardell, Ede Ericson, 48, 54, 61–62 Cardell, Mike, 48–49 Caribbean Winter League, 13 Carruth Plaza, 57, 58 120 Index Carswell, Horace S., Jr., 41 Carta Vieja baseball team, 13 Casey, William, 28–29 casting process, 18, 26, 36, 48–49, 61–63, 83. See also moldmaking process Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 28–29 Champion, Jack, 23–24 Champion, Melba, 23 Cherokee Indians, 81 childhood of Ludtke, 9–10 Christ and Child (Ludtke), 65–67, 66 Christ Chasing the Money Changers from the Temple (Coppini), 67 Christ’s Head (Ludtke), 85–87, 86 Churchill, Winston, 42–44, 43 Citizens for a Maryland Monument at Gettysburg, 46 Civil War monuments, 46–50, 79, 79–81, 80 Civil War Preservation Trust, 47–48 classical figurative sculpture, 5 clay used by Ludtke, xii–xiii, 20–21, 35, 45, 67, 76 Clemente, Roberto, 13 Clinging to Youth (Tauch), 21 Col. Arthur D. “Bull” Simons (Ludtke), 69–71, 71, 72, 88–90, 89, color insert collaborative works, 44, 92–94, 93. See also ARCH 406 (Goodnight/Ludtke) College of Architecture (Texas A&M), 44, 92–94, 93 College of Liberal Arts (Texas A&M), 38 A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas (Little), 57 Concord Minuteman (French), 5, 6 Confederate Monument, 5, 6 Conolly, Dick, 39–40, 87 Contini, Attilio, 33–35 Contini, Cesare, 33–35, 34, 61 Coppini, Pompeo, 19 background, 6–7, 18 and Contini, 33–35 influence on Ludtke, 18–21, 48, 76 and plastilina clay, xii, xiii, 20–21 and portraiture, 48 and religious subjects, 67 and Tauch, 6–7 works at Texas A&M, 38–40, 45 Corps of Cadets, 38, 40, 44 Crockett, David “Davy,” 5, 6, 31 Culp’s Hill, 49, 80 Cypress Gardens West, 30 DagenBela, Elaine, 30, 31 Danger 79er (Ludtke), 44–45, 45 Darrell Royal (Ludtke), 63 David (Michelangelo), xi–xii Davis, Jefferson, 5, 6 Day, Bud, 85 death of Ludtke, xii–xiii, 74 Dell, Juan, 30 DeLuc, Donald, 80 Denver Harbor community, 9, 16–17 Donatello (Niccolò de Betto Bardi), xii Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 28–30, 29 Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc. (DFWII), 64, 94–95 Drake, David, 23 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 5 Ehlman, Chuck, 12 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 31 Electronic Data Systems (EDS), 70 Ethicon Ram (Ludtke), 22–24, 25 Evans, Rudolph, 33 Eveslage, Bob, 52 Fall at Tapatio (Ludtke), 55 Fall Shore (Ludtke), 55 Index 121 Fallon, Dan, 38 Fiore, Rosario, 4 Fitzgerald, John, 13 Fletcher Airfield, 13 Florida International League, 12 Follett, Ken, 70 Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 88, 89 Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 13 Fort Worth, Texas, 63–64, 94–95 Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, 64 Fraser, James Earl, 33 French, Daniel Chester, 5, 6, 8, 32 From Dawn to Sunset (Coppini), 19 Gandy, Shirlee, 64, 95 Gandy, Taylor, 64, 95 Gen. Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Coppini), 6, 20, 38–40, 45 Gen. William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan (Ludtke), 28–30, 29 General Philip Sheridan (Borglum), 6 General Worth Square, 64, 94 George Washington (Greenough), 6 Gettysburg National Military Park sculptures , 33, 46–50, 49, 79, 79–81, 80, color insert golf, 24, 51–55, 53 Gonzales, Henry B., 31 Goodacre, Glenna, 4...