Big, brash, almost larger than life, only a man like Gutzon Borglum could have conceived of and created the monument on Mount Rushmore. On March 6, 1941, Borglum died, following complications ...

Its creator, Gutzon Borglum, intended the monument to be a celebration of the nation’s manifest destiny, the doctrine that says the taking of any land needed for U.S. expansion was not only ...

It’s a blustery spring afternoon in San Francisco, and we are gathered for one of the first-ever behind the scenes tours of ...

Ubiquitous Gutzon Borglum, cleaver of rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) ...

When Gutzon Borglum carved the Memorial to the Start Westward in the late 1930s he chose sandstone from nearby Constitution to craft the statue depicting the pioneers who landed in Marietta in 1788.

Designer Gutzon Borglum chose George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for their popularity, while Thomas Jefferson was picked for how much he expanded the United States following the Louisiana Purchase.

He met the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who was working on a head of Lincoln, and volunteered to buy it and give it to the nation. President Theodore Roosevelt agreed to Borglum's request to show the ...

Some women started their careers in the art world after their children were grown or after a divorce, while others abandoned ...

Her idea went further than a bust of Lee. She asked Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, to make the design. He, in turn, suggested, as a starter, five men on a horseback, each 150 feet high and each the ...

Completed in 1941 and originally named the "Shrine of Democracy," Rushmore was designed by Gutzon Borglum, a sculptor who'd previously undertaken proposals for larger-than-life, relief-like stone ...