Gutzon Borglum won out over sculptor J.Q.A. Ward, a much older and more established artist and one whom Borglum had clashed with earlier in regard to the National Sculpture Society. At the unveiling of the Sheridan statue, one observer, President Theodore Roosevelt (whom Borglum was later to include in the Mount Rushmore portrait group), declared that it was "first rate"; a critic wrote that "as a sculptor Gutzon Borglum was no longer a rumor, he was a fact." (Smith:see References) Borglum was active in the committee that organized the New York Armory Show of 1913, the birthplace of modernism in American art.
St. Charles, Idaho Charles and the rest of the northern Bear Lake Valley settlements in Oneida County, Idaho Territory. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941) was born in St. Charles. St. Charles is located at (42.112493, -111.390001), at an elevation of above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 131 people, 53 households, and 35 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 138 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was