It’s sort of a game: Which four people should be ensconced in much larger-than-life stone sculptures on the side of a mountain (preferably an ugly mountain that is not sacred to any First Nation, but I digress)?
Found a puzzle slanted toward a Rushmore of science, featuring Einstein, Curie, Newton and Darwin.
Puzzle created by Discover, honoring four greats of science.
You can purchase the puzzle at MyScienceShop.com.
We’ve featured the Rushmore of Chicago blues here before, Mount Bluesmore, featured in Buddy Guy’s Legends bar and music venue. I understand the painting moved when Legends moved.
Mount Bluesmore, in the old Legends venue: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and Howlin’ Wolf.
Heck, this could be a great game: Name four people in any profession, art, field of endeavor, who should be featured on a Mount Rushmore-style monument. Above we’ve got science and Chicago blues. On the real Mount Rushmore, we’ve got the Rushmore of U.S. Presidents.
The real Rushmore, in South Dakota. It features Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln, left to right. National Park Service image.
What other monuments could we have? Painting? Picasso and Rembrandt . . . but there are so many.
Renaissance painting. Abstract painting. Landscapes, portrait painters. Architects. Rock musicians. Classical musicians. Baseball. Football. American football. Fiction authors. Engineers. Women scientists. Tuskegee airmen (that would be tough; every one of them deserve it).
Who do you nominate, for what field? Put nominations in comments. Include pictures if you find one.
Others have played this game:
Rushmore of Disastrous Presidents, featuring Trump, Hoover, George W. Bush, and Richard Nixon. By Dan Adel for Vanity Fair magazine.
Adel’s original, in 2007, featured Warren G. Harding in place of Trump.
Vanity Fair’s Disastrous Presidents Rushmore, in 2007, by artist Dan Adel, adding Warren G. Harding, before Trump.
A ghost Rushmore, featuring Native American leaders:
Four Native Americans posed as alternatives for Rushmore. (Challenge: Can you accurately identify the four? Please do.)
A classical music proposal (would you choose differently?)”
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Left to right, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert. Gagambo, at Deviant Art.
Sioux tribes have undertaken a drive to respond to what many consider a desecration of their sacred lands, with a massive monument to Crazy Horse, still being carved, and incredibly impressive (if you visit, spend a lot of time at the museum):
More:
- Artist Jason Hunt pictures a “Black Hills” sculpture, featuring Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and W. E. B. Dubois
- Buddy Guy worries about the future of the blues, interview with NPR
Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson at the Chicago Blues Festival, 2010:
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
If I coaemnicmtud I could thank you enough for this, I’d be lying.
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That was fun, thanks.
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There are at least four different versions of the Native American leaders who should be on Rushmore — and while I can usually get one or two, I’m not sure.
I’m frustrated when people assume we all know everything, and they don’t label their stuff.
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Excellent! The game could go on and on! I liked the ghost Mount Rushmore but could not name them all.
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