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...everyone was in a mood to celebrate. Environmentalists decry the busts as a desecration of nature. New Republic writer Alex Heard identified Gutzon Borglum, Rushmore's eccentric creator, as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And the Sioux Indians charge that the memorial is sculpted from sacred land that was stolen by the government. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Ziolkowski family since 1948 has been carving an even grander likeness of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior, from a nearby mountain...
...sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly...
...death mask of Holmes, done by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, greets visitors as they enter the exhibit. This life-size stone mask has ghostly quality of authenticity, giving the impression of a slumbering Holmes presiding over the show...
Michelangelo was dead, so in 1916 the United Daughters of the Confederacy hired Gutzon Borglum. All they wanted him to construct at Stone Mountain, an island-size rock five miles round and 825 feet tall near Atlanta, was the world's biggest sculpture: a memorial to the Confederacy...
Stone Mountain will not produce a new champion, for the sculptor who conceived both it and Mount Rushmore was an American-born Rodin pupil, the late John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. Back in 1916, he took on the Stone Mountain commission from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at one time considered marching 1,200 stone Confederate soldiers across the cliff. The project went forward by fits and starts. First, World War I interrupted. Lee's head was finally unveiled in 1924 with a dizzying breakfast for 30 served atop the general's shoulder. But costs were...