Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Luce Center
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Object Number:
1987.16
Date:
ca. 1941
Medium:
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 26 3/4 x 13 in. ( 48.3 x 67.9 x 33 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: proper right front corner: "MT. RUSHMORE/NATIONAL/ MEMORIAL/S.D."
signed: center right: "JO DAVIDSON"
Description:
Proposal for Mount Rushmore Memorial, with George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
Gallery Label:
This sculpture was submitted to a competition for the project of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The completed colossal portrait heads at Mount Rushmore were made by Gutzon Borglum and unveiled in 1930-1941
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Robert J. Coleman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
