Statue of Andrew Jackson (U.S. Capitol)

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Year1928 (1928)
Medium Bronze sculpture
Subject Andrew Jackson
Location Washington, D.C., U.S.

Andrew Jackson is a 1928 bronze sculpture of Andrew Jackson by Belle Kinney Scholz and Leopold Scholz, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. [1] It is one of two statues donated by the state of Tennessee. [2] The statue was accepted into the collection by Senator Kenneth McKellar on April 16, 1928. [3]

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References

  1. "Andrew Jackson". Architect of the Capitol . Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  2. Architect of the Capitol Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 211
  3. Murdock, Myrtle Chaney, National Statuary Hall in the Nation's Capitol, Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1955 pp. 74–75