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    		• Muno, Rich,
     
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    		• Hoka Hey Fine Arts Foundry,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Kelley Johnny
     
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    		• Recreation -- Sport & Play
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Ceremony -- Festival
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Newton
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Young at Heart, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Muno, Rich, 1939- , sculptor.
    Hoka Hey Fine Arts Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Young at Heart, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Johnny Kelley, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated April 18, 1993.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 7 ft.; Base: approx. H. 24 in. x W. 70 in.; Foundation: approx. H. 4 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On bronze base of sculpture, figure's proper left side:) RICH MUNO (On bronze base of sculpture:) HOKA/HEY (On plaque on front of stone base:) YOUNG AT HEART/BY RICH MUNO/THIS SCULPTURE IMMORTALIZES THE SPIRIT OF JOHNNY KELLEY./BOSTON'S MARATHON MAN. THE TWO RUNNERS TRIUMPHANTLY/HOLDING HANDS REPRESENT JOHNNY KELLEY WHEN HE FIRST WON BOSTON AT AGE 27 AND AGAIN, AT AGE 84, WHEN HE FINISHED HIS 61ST BOSTON MARATHON. JOHNNY KELLEY WON THE BOSTON/MARATHON IN 1935 AND 1945. FINISHED SECOND SEVEN TIMES, AND/PLACED IN THE TOP TEN EIGHTEEN TIMES. BEYOND THE PERSONAL/ACHIEVEMENTS OF ONE MAN, THIS SCULPTURE IS A DEDICATION TO/THE SPIRIT OF EVERYONE WHO IS YOUNG AT HEART (On plaque on back of stone base:) FRIENDS OF THE JOHNNY KELLY SCULPTURE/THIS SCULPTURE WAS CONCEIVED AND MADE POSSIBLE BY (list of names) signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A bronze sculpture depicting Boston Marathon legend Johnny Kelley crossing the finish line at age twenty-seven and at age eighty-four. The two figures of Kelley stride hand-in-hand across the finish line.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Kelley Johnny -- Full length
    Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Track & Field
    Dress -- Uniform -- Sports Uniform
    Ceremony -- Festival -- Boston Marathon
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Newton
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Located Commonwealth Avenue & Walnut Street, Newton, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was a gift of Dr. Wayman R. Spence, a Waco, Texas physician and art collection who has run in the Boston Marathon several times. IAS files contain newspaper articles from the Newton Graphic, April 15, 1993, pg. 1-12 and March 1, 1993, pg. 4-12.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.
    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 MA000706
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