Gutzon Borglum

Mount Rushmore was sculptured by Gutzon Borglum and his son. This project took about 14 years as it started at 1927 and ended by 1941. It is about 18-meter long. It represents the faces of four American presidents. Each president had to be carved from head to waist, but they didn’t due to lack in funding. About 400 workers were helping Gutzon and his son to sculpture this mount, and they removed about 450,000 tons of rocks to create these four faces. They settled on Mount Rushmore that the most important advantage of it facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. The idea of carving of these famous people was to encourage tourism in this region. Now, it is attracting more than two million visitors every year. Originally, it was known to the Lakota Sioux as “The Six Grandfathers”. There are many services at the site including an Information Center, Mount Rushmore Audio Tour, Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center & Museum, Youth Exploration Area, the Presidential Trail, Gift Shop, Sculptor’s Studio, Memorial Ice Cream Shop and the Mount Rushmore Bookstores. Mount Rushmore took a long time to be done that requires a lot of worker to be done and only the faces of presidents were carved. Also, it is placed on a…

Have you ever viewed four states from one single tower? Well, if you haven’t, then you should visit the John Hancock Center, in Chicago, Illinois!!!!!!! If you go there, you would be able to see Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The architects were Fazlur Rahman Khan and Bruce Graham. The John Hancock Center was made in recognition of John Hancock. Hancock served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. …

Opus 40: Telling an American History America is a country that is gifted with many different artists who specialized in many different fields. All these artists have one thing in common, and that is that you can always relate their piece of work back to the American Story or an American experience. Harvey Fite is no different. During his lifetime Harvey Fite work on a single gigantic project. He called his masterpiece “Opus 40”. The name comes from the Latin word Opus which means…

At that time Gutzon was working on carving images and Robinson encouraged him to visit South Dakota. Borglum visited the state and reviewed his proposal. He suggested for it to be a monument that would reflect the black hills and embody the first 150 years of the nation. He also suggested that the subjects of mount Rushmore had to be presidents. He decided the presidents would be George Washington and Abraham Lincoln because it would attract more national interest. Later he would add Thomas…

Mount Rushmore is located in Keystone, South Dakota in the Black Hills. Its address is 13000 SD-244, Keystone, SD, 57751. Its area is 1278.45 square acres, and the monument is 5,725 feet tall. The terrain is mountainous and surrounded by prairie. Mount Rushmore was the brainchild of Doane Robinson, a local historian, who came up with the idea in 1923 in order to promote tourism to South Dakota. The task of creating the monument was given to Gutzon Borglum, a famous Danish-American sculptor.…

High on a rock bluff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the tremendous cut appearances of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute one of the world's biggest bits of model. Mount Rushmore featured the sculptures of the heads of four presidents of United States: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. These heads are sculptured on the granite mountains, Black Hills region…

the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum “The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.” Mount Rushmore is a sight to behold, but how was the formation formed? What geological processes happened over time to form the peak of Mount Rushmore…

turned to the artist who had created the noblest representation in sculpture of the hero of the North, Lincoln.” Of course Plane went to Gutzon Borglum to do the job. Another one of his works is Mount Rushmore. Even though this memorial took many years to complete, it is definitely one to remember. In 1915, the UDC and Borglum came together to discuss the vision of the memorial as well as the expectations and funding. Within a year of their meetings, the site was dedicated to the memorial on…

Doane Robinson of the South Dakota Historical Society required a point of reference to be sure South Dakota with a last particular target to help the economy of the state by pulling in tourism. In 1923, he suggested that this notable point ought to be fabricated from the stone pretends to work at an advantage Hills of South Dakota. Delegate Peter Norbeck of South Dakota grasped the proposal, and government financing helped the try. Robinson asked to outline and stone carver Gutzon Borglum to…

imaginative interactions. "Kids can climb, swing, and roll around in the Playscape’s spiral tower, play cubes, and modernist geometric structures with integrated slides and swings" (Danaparamita). Noguchi's parents met up at the time his mother was an American writer assisting his father who was then a Japanese poet, with his English. By the time Noguchi was born in 1904, his father had left to go back to Japan. At the age of two, Noguchi and his mother moved to Tokyo to live with his father.…