A new life-size bronze of Thomas Jefferson has been shipped to the White House and cleared off-site security screening this week, the sculptor and the filmmaker behind the donation told the New York Post, arriving just as the nation marks its 250th birthday.

The seated statue, valued by its creators at $150,000, is expected to join President Donald Trump's "walk of fame" display and Rose Garden lineup of Founding Father sculptures, though the White House would not confirm placement, and no Fourth of July weekend unveiling is on the schedule.

Colorado sculptor George Lundeen, 77, told the Post he sent the piece east this week and that Trump wants it for the Rose Garden, joining a bronze George Washington installed there last fall and framing the West Wing Colonnade where Trump has hung portraits of every past president except Joe Biden, whose place is filled by a photograph of an auto-pen.

The sculpture depicts Jefferson seated at a portable writing desk of his own design, drafting the Declaration of Independence, whose adoption by the Continental Congress will be marked on Saturday as part of America's 250th celebrations.

Filmmaker Steven C. Barber, who arranged the donation and previously coordinated Lundeen's Apollo 11 monument at the Kennedy Space Center and the "Defiance" statue of Trump now standing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, called the piece "fabulous."

"He's going to put it in the frigging Rose Garden!" Barber told the Post.

The Rose Garden already houses Founding Father statues that Trump personally displayed to reporters in late February, moments after ordering coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets.

The additions have accompanied a wider redesign of the space, with grass paved over to form a stone patio and a "Presidential Walk of Fame" installed along the adjacent colonnade.

The White House declined to confirm where the new Jefferson would land, and no Rose Garden installation was planned for the holiday weekend.

Lundeen cast the original of the seated Jefferson 25 years ago.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) unveiled a version at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Monticello, Fla., on July 2, 2025, as the first in a series of Founding Father statues placed in Florida counties named for the founders as part of the state's America250FL campaign.

The West Palm Beach "Defiance" bronze of Trump, which Lundeen also sculpted, depicts the president raising his fist after the July 2024 shooting in Butler, Pa.

Jefferson, the third president and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4, 1826, at age 83.

He lived in the White House during his two terms and oversaw renovations of his own, replacing an outdoor privy with a pair of indoor water closets, building a wine cellar west of the residence and installing a call system for summoning servants, according to the White House Historical Association.