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BORGLUM, GUTZON (1867-1941). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Borglum Gutzon"), by O.A. Vik, Rapid City, S.D. (ink caption on image), n.d. [circa 1930]. 252 x 210 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 15/16) including margins, matted. A three-quarter-length portrait, inscribed on the lower portion of the image: "Sincerely Gutzon Borglum."
"The American sculptor who conceived and developed the Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) monument - four 60-foot-high heads of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt carved from living rock. 'Captured in this photograph with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains.' (J.D. Reed, Time)"--W.M.
"The American sculptor who conceived and developed the Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) monument - four 60-foot-high heads of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt carved from living rock. 'Captured in this photograph with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains.' (J.D. Reed, Time)"--W.M.