Even before Donald Trump became president, he longed to have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Now, he might get that ...

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 ...

The sculpture, which famously depicts four former US Presidents as 60 foot granite faces, was constructed between 1927 and ...

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 monument, carved by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and over 400 workers across 14 years, continues to generate discussion about its role in contemporary American politics and culture.

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 ...