First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark
First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark is a marble monument with bas-relief and inscription by sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941) near the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. It was dedicated in 1916. It was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1990 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as part of the Public Sculpture in Newark, New Jersey Multiple Property Submission.
First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark
Inscription on the back of the stele
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.
Borglum in 1919
General Philip Sheridan, sculpted by Borglum in 1908, in Washington, D.C.
Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar, 1925 (design by Borglum)
Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota