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Gutzon Borglum
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum 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 and now held in the…
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culture · American sculptor (1867–1941) · sculptor · painter · also Gutzon Borglum, John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, John Gutzon Mothe Borglum, John Gutzon Borglum, John Gutzon De La Mothe Borglum, John Gutzon de la Borglum
Born 25 March 1867 · Died 6 March 1941 · Q336432
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,921 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6× the usual 486, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Cleaning up syntax using indent.js
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Public attention spiked: 10,471 Wikipedia readers in one day, 21.5× the usual 486, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Death English
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Rochester Institute of Technology: Gutzon Borglum
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2022· 1 entry
Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Marietta College hosts lecture on Start Westward Memorial creator Gutzon Borglum
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2020· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Gutzon Borglum letter to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (New York, N.Y.)
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2010· 1 entry
Princeton University: Gutzon Borglum's portrait of Philip Ashton Rollins
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1941· 2 entries
Died 1941-03-06.
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To give a talk, Borglum began feeling ill and underwent routine prostate surgery
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1939· 1 entry
When German troops marched into Poland, they destroyed Borglum's statue of Woodrow Wilson located in Poznań
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1934· 1 entry
Dedicating a statue of William Jennings Bryan created by Borglum
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1933· 1 entry
And stood at the peak of Mount Tabor, Portland, Oregon, until it was toppled by protestors in 2020
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1925· 3 entries
The sculptor moved to Texas to work on the monument to trail drivers commissioned by the Trail Drivers Association
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But due to lack of funds it was not cast until 1940, and then was only a fourth its originally planned size
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Having only completed the head of Robert E
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1924· 1 entry
And stands at the entrance of the CSX Huntington headquarters building located in the 900 block of Seventh Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia
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1923· 1 entry
With Borglum making the first cut
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1922· 1 entry
Crafted the William Dempster Hoard Sculpture in the north end what is now the Henry Mall Historic District at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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1919· 1 entry
As a memorial for James Rogers McConnell, who was killed in World War I while flying for the Lafayette Escadrille
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1918· 1 entry
Was one of the drafters of the Czechoslovak declaration of independence
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1916· 1 entry
Overhauled the design of the torch for the Statue of Liberty in New York City
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1915· 3 entries
Was appointed Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Denmark near the Grand Lodge of New York
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Who wrote to him: "I feel it is due to the KKK that saved us from Negro domination and carpetbag rule, that it be immortalized on Stone Mountain"
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Coinciding with the Klan-glorifying, highly successful The Birth of a Nation, he was approached by the United Daughters of the Confederacy with a project for sculpting a 20-foot (6 m) high bust of General Robert E
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1912· 1 entry
The Nathaniel Wheeler Memorial Fountain, designed by Borglum, was dedicated in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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1909· 2 entries
With whom he had three children, including a son, Lincoln, and a daughter, Mary Ellis (Mel) Borglum Vhay
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The sculpture Rabboni was created as a grave site for the Ffoulke Family in Washington, D
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1908· 1 entry
Borglum won a competition for an equestrian statue of the Civil War General Philip Sheridan to be placed in Sheridan Circle in Washington, D
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1906· 1 entry
Had a group sculpture accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the first sculpture by a living American the museum had ever purchased—and made his presence further felt with some portraits
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1904· 1 entry
And serving as its Worshipful Master 1910–11
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1889· 1 entry
Borglum married his painting instructor, Elizabeth Putnam Janes, who was 18 years his senior
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-03-25.
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