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Schoolboy Statue, (sculpture). Artist:  Pratt, Bela Lyon, 1867-1917, sculptor. Title:  Schoolboy Statue, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Country School Boy, (sculpture). Dates:  1913. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 5 x 2 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 2 x 2 ft. Inscription:  (On front of base:) THE SCHOOL BOY OF 1850/ONE OF A GENERATION OF NEW ENGLAND/BOYS WHOSE VALOR IN WAR WAS EQUALED/ONLY BY THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN PEACE./PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF/ASHBURNHAM/BY IVERS WHITNEY ADAMS,/A NATIVE SON,/A.D. 1913 signed Description:  The sculpture is a life-size bronze figure of a typical mid-nineteenth century schoolboy, represented as a barefoot twelve year old. The boy's pant legs and shirt sleeves are rolled up, and on his head he wears a straw hat. He carries a lunch pail over his proper right arm and a school book and slate under his proper left arm. In his proper right hand he holds an apple. The sculpture rests atop a rough-hewn granite base in a small traffic triangle. Subject:  Figure male -- Child -- Full length Occupation -- Education -- Student Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Object -- Fruit -- Apple Object -- Written Matter -- Book Object -- Other -- Container Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Ashburnham Sculpture Owner:  Cushing Academy, Intersection of School & Main Streets, Ashburnham, Massachusetts Remarks:  Ivers Whitney Adams gave the sculpture to the town of Ashburnham in 1913. The sculpture was stolen once in 1967, but was later recovered. IAS files contain a copy of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Form C - Object questionnaire dated spring 1991. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 76007539   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 76007539 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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