Sorrow
Artist:
John Gutzon Borglum
(American, 1867 - 1941)
Place made:United States, North and Central America
Date: ca. 1910
Medium: Marble
Dimensions:
h. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); w. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); d. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Object number: 78.240
Signed: Signed lower left and reverse: Gutzon Borglum
Label Text
Although the woman in this bust-size sculpture has been reduced to a slightly turned face and neck, the deep lines under her closed eyes, as well as her clenched jaw, indicate the experience of great sorrow or pain. John Gutzon Borglum initially came to fame for his two-dimensional scenes of Western life, but works like Sorrow revealed his increasing talent for sculpture. Borglum’s capacity for rendering character and emotion through his artistic choices received its greatest expression in the heads of the presidents he carved to adorn South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore National Park.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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