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RARE AND IMPORTANT WILLIAM RUSH CARVED TRADE FIGURE

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NOTE: Online bidding for Lot 905 is not available. Please contact the auction house for bidding instructions. Tobacconist Figure of an American Indian by William Rush (1756-1833), possibly the earliest surviving example of a Native American as a tobacco advertisement, displayed at an early 19th c. shop on Third Street above Walnut Street in Philadelphia. Base painted with the number "458" - possibly the address of the tobacco shop. This figure was probably carved between 1790 -1810. By 1810 Rush became very involved in civic affairs, he was elected as first president of the Pennsylvania Society of Arts, and was becoming more involved in architectural carving. 42" x 20" x 15". Great untouched patina. Historical repairs.
PROVENANCE: Lyman Pendergast, 1940, from a Pennsylvania estate.
LITERATURE: Henri Marceau, "William Rush, 1756-1833, The First Native American Sculptor", Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1937. This figure is catalog entry #1. "Indian, c. 1790 Perhaps a tobacconist's sign.
Frederick Fried, "Artists in Wood, American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures and Circus Wagons" by, Bramhall House, New York, 1970. Illustrated and described on p. 18. The book quotes an excerpt of an article found in papers of great-grandson William Rush Dunton (1868-1966) that states "A figure in front of the cigar store on Third Street above Walnut is by Rush. If you look it up bear in mind it is not the standing figure at street level, but the somewhat grotesque little Indian in an iron frame over the door." ("An Appreciation - by a Ship Carver", Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, undated).
A.W. Pendergast & W. Porter Ware, "Cigar Store Figures in American Folk Art", Lightner Publishing, Chicago, 1953, P. XIV
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, "William Rush: American Sculptor", Philadelphia, 1982, catalog p. 99, no. 7, fig. 95.