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    		• Keck, Charles,
     
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    		• Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Johnson, George F.
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Joggerst, Dorothy
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Joggerst, Dorothy
     
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    		• Figure group -- Male & Child
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Object -- Flower
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Binghamton
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    George F. Johnson Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Keck, Charles, 1875-1951, sculptor.
    Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    George F. Johnson Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1923.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 86 x 72 x 52 in.; Base: approx. 38 x 70 x 31 in.; Exedra: approx. H. 41 in. x L. 15 ft.
    Inscription: 
    The Henri Bonnard Bronze Co/Founderies Mt. Vernon, NY (On upper left side of base:) CHARLES KECK/Sculptor (On front of base, incised lettering:) GEORGE F. JOHNSON/Erected by/An appreciative community/to the nobility of his character/and his great benefaction/to the people/1923" (On left side of low wall :) "Have Faith in the People" (On right side of low wall:) "Labor is Honorable" signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A portrait of George F. Johnson surrounded by a school girl who stands facing him on his proper right side, and a young male shoe worker who is seated on the ground by Johnson's proper left side. Johnson rests his proper right hand around the shoulders of the school girl as she presents him with a bouquet of flowers. A large piece of shoe leather is draped over Johnson's proper left leg and across the lap of the shoe worker. The sculpture is mounted on square granite base that rests on a stepped platform with a low wall extending from either side.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Johnson, George F. -- Full length
    Occupation -- Industry -- Manufacturing
    Portrait female -- Joggerst, Dorothy -- Full length
    Portrait female -- Joggerst, Dorothy -- Child
    Figure group -- Male & Child
    Dress -- Accessory -- Shoe
    Object -- Flower
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Binghamton
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Binghamton, Planning, Housing & Community Development Department, City Hall, 4th Floor, Binghamton, New York 13901
    Located Recreation Park, Binghamton, New York
    Remarks: 
    George F. Johnson came to Binghamton, New York from Massachusetts in his twenties to work for the Lester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company. He later became head of the entire operation, which grew into the Endicott-Johnson Company, and became one of the area's largest employers. The monument was commissioned by the Endicott-Johnson Company as a tribute to its founder. The monument was installed when George F. Johnson was 65 years old, but the sculpture depicts him as a younger man. Local resident, Dorothy Joggerst, modeled for the figure of the girl. IAS files contain an excerpt from Gerald R. Smith's "The Valley of Opportunity: A Pictorial History of the Greater Binghamton Area," Norfolk, VA: The Donning Company, 1988, pg. 141.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    SOS Assessment Award, 1999.
    SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 1999.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    New York Herald Tribune, April 22, 1923.
    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 NY000761
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