Sculpting of Mount Rushmore

Date: October 4, 1927 • Location: Custer, United States

Gutzon Borglum and approximately 400 workers began sculpting Mount Rushmore.

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 United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.