Robin Borglum Kennedy gives her portion of the lecture on her grandfather, Gutzon Borglum, at Marietta College on Saturday. (Photo by James Dobbs) MARIETTA — The McDonough Center Auditorium at ...

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 born ...

If sculptor Gutzon Borglum had gotten his way, the monument to trail drivers that he was commissioned to create in 1925 would have been about four times larger than it is. He also would have designed ...

How Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone ...

In Biography of a Mountain, the journalist probes Mt. Rushmore’s fraught origins and mythic place in American history. Who were the key stakeholders in the creation of Mt. Rushmore, and who wasn’t at ...

A man on the head of George Washington at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills area of Keystone, S.D., circa 1930s. A man on the head of George Washington at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills area of ...

An iconic Norman Rockwell work So You Want to See the President! — the artist's only known suite of four interrelated paintings on paper — was sold on Friday, Nov. 14 to the White House Historical ...

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 ...