General Andrew Jackson

Exhibition history

Pennsylvania Academy of the FIne Arts, 1820.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1985–86 (Chicago, 1986), pl. 2, 8. Art Institute of Chicago, “William Rush,” Mosaic, November/December 1986, 6, ill. Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 826, 830, 832, pl. VII. Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 4, 1988, 1, 60–62. Lita Solis–Cohen, “Chicago Shows Off—Tastefully,” Maine Antiques Digest, Dec. 1988, 14–B. Milo M. Naeve, “William Rush’s Terracotta and Plaster Busts of General Andrew Jackson,” American Art Journal 21, 1 (1989), 18, 21–23, fig. 1. Stuart Klawans, “The Art Institute of Chicago at the Crossroads of America and the World,” Business Week 3180, Oct. 1, 1990, 89, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Pocketguide to the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1983), 32, fig. 54. Susan R. Stein, The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello (Harry N. Abrams, 1993), 227, ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: William Rush / American, 1756–1833
Date: 1819
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 50.5 × 47.9 × 22.2 cm (19 7/8 × 18 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Style: 19th century
Place: Philadelphia
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Jamee J. and Marshall Field, the Brooks and Hope B. McCormick Foundation, and the Bessie Bennett, W. G. Field, Ada Turnbull Hertle, Laura T. Magnuson, and Major Acquisitions funds
Accession no.: 1985.251

Provenance

Louise Lukens, Burlington, N.J., before 1940; given to the Burlington Historical Society, Burlington, N.J., by 1940; Sold, Christie’s, New York, May 31, 1985, lot 15 to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.