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Gutzon Borglum

Mares of Diomedes

Maker

Gutzon Borglum (American, 1867-1941)

Title

Mares of Diomedes

Year

1904

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

bronze

Dimensions

52.7 x 86.4 cm (20 3/4 x 34 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated:Gutzon Borglum1904

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift in memory of John S. Holbrook

Object Number

29.086

Type

Exhibition History

Making It In America
Oct 11, 2013 – Feb 09, 2014

Label copy

Born in Idaho of Danish Mormon immigrants, Borglum studied sculpture in Paris before launching a career in New York. Mares of Diomedes is a smaller version of his monumental bronze acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906. Cast by the Gorham Company, it represents the moment Hercules causes Diomedes’s man-eating horses to flee their stable and stampede to the sea.

Borglum is best known for the colossal granite sculpture of four U.S. presidents at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the Black Hills region of South Dakota.

Enid Yandell and the Branstock School
Jul 23, 1982 – Aug 29, 1982

Label copy

Borglum was a friend of Enid's. She owned at lest one similar sculpture.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Gutzon Borglum (American, 1867-1941)
Mares of Diomedes, 1904
Bronze
52.7 x 86.4 cm (20 3/4 x 34 inches)
Gift in memory of John S. Holbrook 29.086

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