Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) is best known as the artist commissioned to sculpt the national monument at Mount Rushmore. He worked on the Mount Rushmore sculpture from 1927 until his death in 1941 (the ...

Big, brash, almost larger than life, only a man like Gutzon Borglum could have conceived of and created the monument on Mount Rushmore. On March 6, 1941, Borglum died, following complications ...

If it were left up to Gutzon Borglum, the 20th century would have been deprived of one of its most original sculptors. Borglum had taken on an apprentice by the name Sam Gilmour in the summer of 1922, ...

In this, the season of presidents, the story of Mount Rushmore is often retold. It took 14 years and 400 men to carve in stone the vision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. A sheer mountain face of South ...

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the images of four U.S. presidents into Mount Rushmore on Oct. 4, 1927. The effort employed 400 people and took 14 years to complete.

Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), Philip Ashton Rollins, Class of 1889, no date. Bronze relief. Gift of Philip Ashton Rollins. Western Americana collection. Philip Ashton Rollins (1869-1950) was born in ...

View Article Published in the print edition of the September 10, 1938, issue, with the headline “Beauty and Gutzon Borglum.” ...

The massive undertaking was led by Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum, but he passed away just months before its completion. His son, Lincoln Borglum, led the project to its completion on ...

Citation Gutzon Borglum collection, 1926-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Additional Forms 35mm microfilm reel 3056 available for use through interlibrary loan. Location of ...

Big, brash, almost larger than life, only a man like Gutzon Borglum could have conceived of and created the monument on Mount Rushmore.