Who sculpted Mount Rushmore?

• A. Gutzon Borglum
• B. Daniel Chester French
• C. Frederic Remington
• D. Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Answer: (A)

Mount Rushmore was crafted under the direction of Gutzon Borglum, who conceived the project and oversaw the carving of the four presidents into the mountainside in the Black Hills of South Dakota from 1927 to 1941. Borglum chose the subjects and guided the scale and composition, turning a massive rock face into a monumental public sculpture. After his death, his son Lincoln Borglum completed the work. The other sculptors listed are famous for different works—Daniel Chester French for the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial, Frederic Remington for Western-themed bronzes, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens for other celebrated monuments—but none of them sculpted Mount Rushmore. The artist most closely associated with this project is Gutzon Borglum.