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    The Dublin Spring Water Boy, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Federici, Gaetano, 1880-1964, sculptor.
    Kunst Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    The Dublin Spring Water Boy, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Modeled 1930. Dedicated Oct. 24, 1931. Relocated 1991.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 72 x 13 1/2 x 12 in.; Base: approx. 25 x 26 x 26 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On back of sculpture, at top of square bronze shaft, incised lettering:) GAETANO FEDERICI/1931 (On back of sculpture, middle of square bronze shaft:) ERECTED BY THE/DUBLIN SPRING/ASSOCIATION/1931/NEAR THE SITE/OF THE/OLD DUBLIN SPRING (On front of sculpture, middle of square bronze shaft:) NO MORE (On bronze plaque attached to granite base:) "The Dublin Spring Water Boy"/This monument was sculptured by/GAETANO FEDERICI in 1931. It was/originally located at the southwest/corner of Mill Street and Oliver Street/to commemorate the Dublin Spring used/by the Irish-American community/during the 1800's. It was moved to its present location in 1991 during the/reconstruction of Oliver St. signed
    Description: 
    A tall bronze shaft topped by a bronze figure of a small boy holding an oval-shaped canteen in front of him. The front of the shaft is adorned with the face of a small bulldog popping out of a hole surrounded by shamrocks. The sculpture rests on a square block of granite.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child -- Waist length
    Object -- Other -- Container
    Animal -- Dog -- Bulldog
    Object -- Foliage -- Shamrock
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Paterson
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Paterson, Parks Department, 800 Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey 07510
    Located Triangular brick plaza at Oliver & Marshall Streets, Paterson, New Jersey
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Mill & Oliver Streets, Paterson, New Jersey until 1991.
    Remarks: 
    The monument was erected by the Dublin Spring Association to memorialize a local landmark in Paterson's Irish community, the natural spring at the corner of Mill and Oliver Streets in the middle of the neighborhood known since 1811 as Dublin. The spring, located six feet below street level, was fed by underground streams from Garret Mountain and was the center of community life in the Dublin neighborhood. Typhoid epidemics beginning in the late 1890s closed the Dublin Spring several times, but Dean McNulty of St. John's Cathedral always managed to get the Dublin Spring reopened for his parish members. When he died in 1922, the Dublin Spring was closed permanently.
    The design for the memorial went through several versions beginning with an allegorical female figure holding an Irish harp, to a Triton, and finally to a child holding a canteen, which evolved into the present water boy sculpture that was approved in Nov. 1930. Paterson youngster Charles Conti most likely posed for the figure of the boy. Artistic license was taken with the design of the canteen, which was given an oval shape, rather than the traditional round shape, to make it more of an integral part of the sculpture. The bulldog on shaft is most likely the artist's own dog, Teddy, immortalized.
    The sculpture was located at Mill and Oliver streets until 1991, when it was relocated due to the reconstruction of Oliver Street. The sculpture was restored and relocated to its present site in 1991. IAS files contain an excerpt from Flavia Alaya's "Gaetano Federici: 1880-1964 The Artist As Historian," Paterson, NJ: Passaic County Historical Society, 1980, pg. 62-64.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Alaya, Flavia, "Gaetano Federici: 1880-1964 The Artist As Historian," Paterson NJ: Passaic County Historical Society, 1980, pg. 64.
    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 77002951
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