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| Borglum's greatest accomplishment was the four presidential faces carved into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The monument was sculpted by 400 workers between 1927 and 1941. |
Gutzon Borglum Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Gutzon Borglum at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Ruskin, 1903
Gutzon Borglum at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, California
Riders at the Stream, 1895
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
John Campbell Greenway
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
Zebulon Baird Vance
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Springville Museum of Art, Utah
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
California State University WorldImages Database
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
The Mares of Diomedes, 1904
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Photographs from Mount Rushmore
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Photographs from Stone Mountain
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Chris Miller's Gallery of Figure Sculpture of the 20th Century
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
PBS
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gutzon Borglum 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Resource Library Magazine
Out of Rushmore's Shadow: The Artistic Development of Gutzon Borglum
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