Mark Hopkins Institute of Art[1][2] Académie Julian[3] École des Beaux-Arts[2] California School of Design[4]
Known for
Sculpture, painting
Movement
Bull Moose Party[5]
Spouse
Mary Williams
(m. 1909)
Children
3, including Lincoln
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt[6] and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.[7]
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^ ab"Gutzon Borglum". Marriott Library – The University of Utah. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021.
^Dimmick, Lauretta; Hassler, Donna J. (August 31, 1999). American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-923-9 – via Google Books.
^"John Borglum". Galerie Gabrie. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021.
^Cullinane, Michael Patrick (December 11, 2017). "Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon". Google Books. LSU Press. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
^"Abraham Lincoln Bust". aoc.gov. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021.
^Howard Shaff and Audrey Karl Shaff, Six Wars at a Time; The Life and Times of Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Center for Western Studies, St. Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 1985, p. 197
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated...
leader, his father, GutzonBorglum, in 1941. One of his best-known works, a bust of his father, is on display outside the Lincoln Borglum Visitors Center...
the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor GutzonBorglum designed the sculpture, called Shrine of Democracy, and oversaw the...
1927, and took 14 years to complete. The sculptor of the memorial was GutzonBorglum, the son of Danish immigrants. He chose the two most famous presidents...
Børglum GutzonBorglum (1867 – 1941), American sculptor, famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore Lene Børglum (born 1961)...
during World War I. Born in Ogden, Utah, Borglum was the younger brother of GutzonBorglum and uncle of Lincoln Borglum, the two men most responsible for the...
high. A bronze recasting of GutzonBorglum's head of Lincoln stands on a pedestal in front of the entrance way; Borglum's original marble bust is in the...
1931, Luther Standing Bear, Henry's older brother, wrote to sculptor GutzonBorglum, who was carving the heads of four American presidents at Mount Rushmore...
the UDC Stone Mountain Memorial Association. She chose the sculptor GutzonBorglum for the project and invited him to visit the mountain (although, despite...
Bascom exhibited with Olaf Wieghorst. Sculptor and popular historian GutzonBorglum provided a staple of modern Americana when he chiseled the greatest...
most common subject, in works by sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens, GutzonBorglum, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Leo Cherne and others. Over time, traditional...
Newark is a marble monument with bas-relief and inscription by sculptor GutzonBorglum (1867–1941) near the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New...
Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, was chosen by sculptor GutzonBorglum and approved by President Calvin Coolidge to be depicted in a stone...
Mountain for the carving of the Confederate memorial carving started by GutzonBorglum. The State of Georgia purchased the Stone Mountain property in 1958...
close-up views of the memorial. The Sculptor's studio was built by GutzonBorglum, and features discussion about the construction of the monument as well...
Stone Mountain Memorial near Atlanta, Georgia. Designed by sculptor GutzonBorglum, the coin features a depiction of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee...
commemorating the Confederate colonel and governor of the same name by GutzonBorglum, installed in the United States Capitol as part of the National Statuary...
of America is a colossal bronze sculpture by Mount Rushmore sculptor GutzonBorglum and his assistant Luigi Del Bianco containing "forty-two humans and...
met with GutzonBorglum, writing Borglum about the potential project. During Robinson and Borglum's first expedition to the Needles, Borglum declared...
created in 1922 by American sculptor GutzonBorglum. The sculpture is bronze and it was created in 1922 by GutzonBorglum. It is located on the University...
proposals for the monument. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Saint-Gaudens, GutzonBorglum, Totten & Rogers, Henry Bacon, and Hornblower & Marshall were some of...
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