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    		• Bowlin, Edgar,
     
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    		• Bowlin, Edgar,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Unidentified
     
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    		• State of Being -- Disabled
     
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    		• State of Being -- Disabled
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Anniston
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Pleased Boy of Noble Street, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Bowlin, Edgar, sculptor.
    Bowlin, Edgar, sculptor.
    Title: 
    The Pleased Boy of Noble Street, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Boy of Noble, (sculpture).
    Pleased Boy, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1952.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Figure: white marble; Base: white marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. 2 ft. 8 in. x 9 in. x 10 in.; Base: approx. 2 ft. x 10 in. x 10 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Top front of base:) PLEASED BOY OF NOBLE STREET/BY EDGAR BOWLIN signed
    Description: 
    A little deaf boy stands barefoot with his hands cupped to his chest. He has short hair and wears an untucked shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows. The figure is mounted upon a tall, square base with an inscription on the front.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Unidentified -- Child
    State of Being -- Disabled -- Deaf
    State of Being -- Disabled -- Mute
    Allegory -- Quality -- Charity
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Alabama -- Anniston
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    On loan to Calhoun County, Liles Memorial Library, 108 East 10th, P. O. Box 308, Anniston, Alabama 36201
    Lent by East Tennessee State University, Tennessee
    Remarks: 
    Sculptor created figure after an incident that occurred in May of 1943, when he was an Army Staff Sergeant stationed at Fort McClellan, near Anniston. On a cold morning, a young boy, perhaps seven or eight years old, barefoot and shivering, walked up to him on Noble Street in Anniston. The boy was quiet, and when the sculptor asked what he wanted, he gave no reply. The sculptor realized that he was deaf and mute and that he was begging for coins. The sculptor gave him a quarter and the boy's face lit up as he clasped the coin to his chest. Then, still silent, the boy ran down the street. The figure has been on loan from East Tennessee State University since August of 1981, where it was located outdoors on the campus. When it was located there, students believed that leaving coins in the boy's hands before examinations would bring good luck. Nashville Surgical, Inc., helped to sponsor the loan of the figure. IAS files contain a related article from the Anniston Star, Aug. 26, 1981, pg. 1, 5A.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Alabama survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Anniston Star, Aug. 26, 1981, pg. 1.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS AL000277
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