Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001997Bust from the Adams Memorial
Provenance
Charles William Deering (1852–1927), Chicago, 1912; by descent to Marion Deering McCormick (1886–1965), Chicago, 1924; by descent to Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Lake Forest, IL, by 1965; by descent to his estate; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Publications
Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2007–2008), p. 19. Annelise K. Madsen, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 102–4, fig. 77.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848–1907)
- Date
- Modeled 1892–93, cast 1912
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 51.4 × 30.5 × 26.7 (20 1/4 × 12 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- bust/head
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 2007.389
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