Nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore is one of the most enduring symbols of the American experience and ...

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 ...

Understandably, the headlines are all in 12-point type about the private-equity guy who paid $6 billion — the highest-ever ...

Photo courtesy of Manugian Studio, Norwalk, CT After meeting Del Bianco through a mutual acquaintance, renowned Danish-American sculptor and engineer Gutzon Borglum—the designer of Mount Rushmore—took ...

James Lincoln de la Mothe Borglum, called Lincoln, was the first child of Gutzon Borglum and his second wife Mary, born on April 9, 1912. He was named after his father's favorite president ...

The sculpture, which famously depicts four former US Presidents as 60 foot granite faces, was constructed between 1927 and 1941 under the direction of architect Gutzon Borglum. Everybody knows that.

Mount Rushmore was sculpted between October 4, 1927, and October 31, 1941. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted ...

Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) is best known as the artist commissioned to sculpt the national monument at Mount Rushmore. He worked on the Mount Rushmore sculpture from 1927 until his death in 1941 (the ...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota, less than a half-hour drive down the road from Mount Rushmore, just 17 miles away, another colossal mountain sculpture—the largest sculptural project in history—is ...