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    		• Richards, Lucy Currier,
     
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    		• Gorham Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Child
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Recreation -- Sport & Play
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
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    		• Sundial
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Pinehurst
     
     
    The Sundial Boy, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Richards, Lucy Currier, 1870-1919, sculptor.
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    The Sundial Boy, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Sun Dial Golf Lad, (sculpture).
    Bronze Caddy Sundial, (sculpture).
    Putter Boy, (sculpture).
    Pinehurst Sundial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed 1912.
    Medium: 
    Bronze with brown patina.
    Dimensions: 
    H. 17 1/2 in.
    Description: 
    A bronze sundial with a figure of a young boy holding a golf club as he is about to take a swing at a golf ball on the ground in front of him. The shaft of the golf club serves as the gnomon for the sundial.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child
    Figure male -- Full length
    Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Golf
    Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
    Object Type: 
    Sculpture
    Sundial
    Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Pinehurst
    Owner: 
    Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Side of clubhouse, on putting green practice area, Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374
    Remarks: 
    This bronze sundial was commissioned by Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst, whose wife was a friend of the sculptor Lucy Currier Richards. The figure of the boy holding the golf club was based on "The Golf Lad" caricature of a young boy that appeared in Pinehurst's early advertising for newspapers, magazines, and calendars. The Golf Lad, created by advertising executive Frank Presbrey, became the symbol of Pinehurst and was shown in various activities at Pinehurst. According to Pinehurst, their golf pro Donald Ross was asked to demonstrate for Richards the proper grip on the club and stance when about to hit a golf ball. The sun casts a shadow from the shaft of the golf club to indicate the time of day on the sundial. In order to get the correct angle, the shaft was made longer than on a normal golf club. The sculpture was originally known as the Sundial Boy or the Sun Dial Golf Lad, but in Gorham Company catalogs the work is listed as Bronze Caddy Sundial.
    References: 
    Inventory Staff, 2011.
    Illustration: 
    Washington Post, July 31, 2011, pg. F6.
    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 71500985
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