John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum liked to tinker with his own legend, subtracting a few years from his age, changing the story of his parentage. The best archival research has revealed that he was ...

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum directs the carving from a projecting ledge at the left as drillers, suspended in slings fastened with cables to the winches at the top of the mountain, work on George ...

Robin Borglum Kennedy presents Peggy and Joe Grimm, president of the Start Westward Memorial Society, with an ink sketch of Theodore Roosevelt that her grandfather Gutzon Borglum created in 1901.

The concept for Mount Rushmore was proposed by historian Doane Robinson in 1923 as a bold way to draw tourists to the state ...

Gutzon Borglum was no ordinary sculptor. He was a man obsessed with scale, symbolism, and legacy. Born to Danish immigrants, Borglum’s early life was marked by hardship and a restless search for ...

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.

Here, Borglum works on a model of Mount Rushmore in his studio facing the mountain. Before starting work on the memorial, sculptor Gutzon Borglum marked off the measurements as to which sculpture ...

Mr. Pettifer, an editor, received a telephone call from Miss Haskell, a beautiful and wealthy young woman, inviting him to a cocktail party. When he … ...

Gutzon's talent was immediately apparent and he found a few commissions (certainly the fact that Solon had already associated the name Borglum with fine sculpture didn't hurt). At the same time ...