Gutzon Borglum, born March 25, 1867 in St. Charles, Idaho, is an American sculptor best known for creating the presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore. Borglum studied art in Paris and spent time in England and France. Borglum began his career as a painter in California and only turned to sculpture after meeting Auguste Rodin and in following of his younger brother Solon. Borglum's preferred theme was heroic nationalism and he loved to sculpt on a gigantic scale. Prior to sculpting Mount Rushmore, Borglum sculpted a bust of Abraham Lincoln, which was exhibited at the White House of Theodore Roosevelt, and carved the bust of Robert E. Lee on Georgia's Stone Mountain. Borglum died before Mount Rushmore was completed.