Background
Borglum, Gutzon was born on March 25, 1871 in Idaho, United States. Son of Doctor James de la Mothe and Ida (Michelson) de la Mothe B.
Borglum, Gutzon was born on March 25, 1871 in Idaho, United States. Son of Doctor James de la Mothe and Ida (Michelson) de la Mothe B.
Educated in public schools of Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska. Studied art in San Francisco. Went to Paris in 1890, studying in Julian Academy and École des Beaux Arts.
Awarded honorary Master of Arts by Princeton University, and Doctor of Laws by Oglethorpe U. Doctor of Letters, Dakota Wesleyan University, 1939.
Aerodynamic engineer
Exhibited as painter and sculptor in Paris Salon and made associate Salon, 1891. Spent year in Spain; in California, 1893-1894. Returned to Europe and located in London and Paris until 1901, then settled in New New York
Held successful exhibitions abroad.
Gold Medallist Louisiana Purchase Exposition Sculptor Saint John's Cathedral. Produced Sheridan Equestrian, Washington, District of Columbia.
Sheridan Equestrian, Sheridan Road, Chicago. Colossal marble head of Lincoln in rotunda, Capitol Building, Washington.
Large bronze group, Mares of Diomedes, Metropolitan Museum.
Ruskin (bronze). Statue of Lincoln, Newark, New Jersey. Trudeau memorial, Saranac Lake.
Trail Drivers memorial, Texas.
Statues—Mackay, Beecher, Altgeld, Vance, Huntington, Aycock, Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Greenway. O’Connell memorial, University of Virginia. Hoard memorial, Madison, Wisconsin.
Wheeler memorial fountain, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Bryan (William Jennings) memorial, Washington, District of Columbia. Ffoulke memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia.
Marbles—Wonderment of Motherhood, Modern Atlas (a woman), Conception, Martyr, The Centaurs. Colossal monument 42 figures in bronze, Wars of America, Newark.
New Jersey; North Carolina memorial, battlefield of Gettysburg: memorial to Woodrow Wilson, Posnan, Poland.
Northwest Territory memorial at Marietta, Ohio. Thomas Paine memorial, Paris France: designed and began carving Confederate memorial on face of Stone Mountain, Georgia, but a controversy arose with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, and all plans and models and work were destroyed. Author and designer Confederate half dollar, struck in honor of the Confederate soldiers by national government.
Designer and sculptor of first national memorial federally authorized, on Mount Rushmore in Black Hills, South Dakot.
Dedicated and officially begun by President Coolidge, August 10, 1927—money appropriated by Congress and commission appointed by President in 1929. Head of Washington unveiled, 1930.
Jefferson unveiled by President Roosevelt in 1936, Lincoln in 1937, Theodore Roosevelt in 1939, work still in progress. Non-Partisan leader in politics, identified with the agrarian revolt in the Northwest.
Investigated for President Wilson and exposed the colossal aircraft failure.
Mason.
Married Mary Montgomery, 1909. Children: James Lincoln, Mary-Ellis.