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 ...

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

The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...

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 ...

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The statue of Comstock Lode mining baron John Mackay, which was dedicated in 1908, was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.

How Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on ...

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, ...

If sculptor Gutzon Borglum had gotten his way, the monument to trail drivers that he was commissioned to create in 1925 would have been about four times larger than it is. He also would have ...

Gutzon Borglum works on the Start Westward monument in his studio. The monument was commissioned for the city of Marietta’s sesquicentennial in 1938. (Photo Provided) ...

His son, Lincoln Borglum, led the project to its completion on October 31, 1941. Sculptor's Studio Built in 1939, this studio was the second studio used by Gutzon Borglum within the park.