Mount Rushmore
by Ben Prepelka
Title
Mount Rushmore
Artist
Ben Prepelka
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While sculptor John Gutzon de la Borglum was working on Georgia's Stone Mountain carving of three famous figures from the Civil War Confederacy, a much grander plan began to gel in South Dakota. Meetings with Doane Robinson focused on a plan to fit a national interest theme highlighting famous American presidents. Borglum first suggested carvings of Washington and Lincoln for the Black Hills site, but in time Borglum also added friend and conservationist President Theodore Roosevelt. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was added, rounding out the theme of Manifest Destiny.
The presidential stone carvings at Mount Rushmore became a colossal achievement, involving the efforts of nearly 400 men and women. Using jackhammers and dynamite, the workers endured weather that varied from blazing hot to bitter cold. Their 14 year efforts yielded one of the most famous carving in the world. Completed on October 31, 1941, four 60-foot-tall faces carved into a mountainside in the Black Hills of South Dakota are one of the most popular places in the American midwest. South of Rapid City, the Mount Rushmore National Monument is visited by more than two million people each year.
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November 14th, 2023
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Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the โThe Gray Scale Outdoorsโ group on Fine Art America โ You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
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