American sculptor, born in Ogden, UT, on the 22nd of December 1868, the son of a Danish wood-carver. He studied under Louis F. Rebisso in the Cincinnati art school in 1895–1897, and under Frémiet in Paris. He took as his chief subjects incidents of western life, cowboys and Indians, with which he was familiar from his years on the ranch; notably “Lassoing Wild Horses,” “Stampeding Wild Horses,” “Last Round-up,” “On the Border of White Man’s Land,” and “Burial on the Plains.” He completed many important statues after 1910, including “God’s Command to Retreat” (1911, Napoleon on horseback in a snow drift, bronze); “Jacob Leisler,” first governor of New Amsterdam (1911, heroic figure in bronze at New Rochelle, NY); “Reverie of a Pioneer” (colossal equestrian for the Court of Honour, San Francisco Exposition); “Backin’ ’Em Up” (1919, four dismounted cavalrymen, with horses); “The Little Lady of the Dew” (unveiled 1920 in the churchyard of St. Mark’s in the Bouwerie, New York City); “Inspiration” and “Aspiration” (1920, two statues of Indians, in stone, both at St. Mark’s in the Bouwerie). He was Y.M.C.A. secretary with the French army in 1918, won the Croix de Guerre, and later was engaged in work with the A.E.F. in France. He died on the 31st of January 1922. His elder brother was Gutzon Borglum.
