BORGLUM GUTZON DE LA MOTHE Photograph dated and Signed Gutzo

Sale 2461 - Lot 285

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SCULPTOR OF MOUNT RUSHMORE BORGLUM, GUTZON DE LA MOTHE. Photograph dated and Signed, "Gutzon Borglum," image by Borglum, showing his marble bust of Abraham Lincoln. Signed on the mount below the image. 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches (image), 10 1/4x8 1/2 inches overall; some silvering to edges, typed Lincoln quotation pasted to mount at lower left, moderate abrasions to upper right of image, Davis & Stanford imprint on verso. Np, 1907

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This sculpture is on display in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol building. On February 6, 1908, the President's son, Robert T. Lincoln, wrote to Borglum to say of the bust that "it is the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen."