The four presidents whose images make up Mount Rushmore were very distinct individuals with very different motives, accomplishments, and personalities. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt, whose presidencies altered the course of history, blend together by the same history into some sort of historical soup of Americana. Each portrait is combined in Fenton’s painting with the other three presidents, leaving a general sense of the individual president depicted.
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Mount Rushmore Disposition
Gutzon Borglum carved the presidents’ portraits out of the granite of Mount Rushmore, and Fenton paid homage to the sculptor and his accomplishment with a rearrangement of his work in paint.