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| | Borglum, Gutzon | (American, 1867-1941) |
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| | Gutzon Borglum is an American born sculptor, famous for creating monumental works of American Presidents and historical figures including the famous carvings at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. He was born March 25, 1867 in St. Charles, Idaho to Danish immigrants. He studied at the Academie Julian, the Mark Hopkins Institute, and the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1906 he had a group sculpture accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art becoming the first living American artist to have a work purchased by the museum. That same year he won the Logan Medal of the Arts. After various failed attempts at sculpture on a grand scale, including some work on Stone Mountain in Georgia, he began work on Mount Rushmore, from 1927-1941. Simultaneously he worked on sculptures of Thomas Paine for Paris and Woodrow Wilson for Poland. His son Lincoln oversaw the Rushmore project in his absence and continued to work on the project after Borglum’s death on March 6, 1941 from complications of a surgery in Chicago. |
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