Mount Rushmore

by Howard Koslow

Title

Mount Rushmore

Artist

Howard Koslow

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Cold Press Illustration Board

Description

America, in its vastness, has many natural wonders befitting a great nation. Yet of all these, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota, is a bit unusual, for it is both a natural and man-made wonder.Each year, more than two million visitors gaze in wonder at the stern visages of four great men who molded the nation, their faces carved from a huge mountain of solid granite. Legendary men all, with ideas as rock solid as their granite profiles. In 1927, Gutzon Borglum, an impassioned student of Rodin in Paris, began the nation's most ambitious sculpture. Working for fourteen years, Borglum guided his crews in meticulously measuring, marking and chiseling into the tough granite of the 5,725-foot high mountain. "There is not a monument in the country as big as a snuff box," he exclaimed before he began his huge project. It was a task which he would not live to see completed. His son, Lincoln, closed down the project in 1941. Each of the presidential faces is as high as a six story building. George Washington looks out across a country he helped to create; Thomas Jefferson gazes over land he acquired through the purchase of the Louisiana Territory; Theodore Roosevelt's square-jawed countenance rises above forests he helped preserve -- and finally, Abraham Lincoln eternally watches over a union he kept under one flag.

Please note the "Fine Art America" watermark will not appear on the painting or any print reproduction.

Artwork Copyright © 1991 Wind River Studios Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved under United States and international copyright laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, transmit, or otherwise exploit the Artwork in any way. Any sale of the physical original does not include or convey the Copyright or any right comprised in the Copyright. WRSH Stock Number XB13000

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