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    		• McKenzie, R. Tait,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Child
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Boy Scout, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    McKenzie, R. Tait, 1867-1938, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Boy Scout, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Ideal Boy Scout, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1937.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze with patina; Base: concrete.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 26 in. x 30 1/2 in.; Base: approx. 24 x 31 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque on base:) MORRIS AND JOHN D. SCHAPIRO/SCOUT SERVICE CENTER/R. TAIT MCKENZIE 1937 unsigned
    Description: 
    Standing figure of a Boy Scout in uniform, including scarf, shorts, knee socks and hiking boots. He holds his hat to his chest with his proper right hand. His proper left hand is on a hatchet, which hangs from a tool belt on his hip. The statue stands on a square base.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child -- Full length
    Dress -- Uniform -- Scout Uniform
    Occupation -- Service -- Scouting
    Object -- Tool -- Axe
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Boy Scouts of America, Morris and John D. Schapiro Scout Service Center, Wyman Park Drive & Sisson Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21210
    Remarks: 
    This work has been duplicated for more than thirty Boy Scout Council facilities across the country. The sculpture was originally created as a statuette in 1914 at the suggestion of Dr. Charles D. Hart, then president of the Philadelphia Council. Dr. McKenzie, also a Council member, presented the statuette and its copyright to the Philadelphia Council Executive Board on March 10, 1915. An updated, life-sized version which sold for $5,000 was created in 1937 for the opening of the Philadelphia Council's new headquarters building (IAS record 88320102). A total of five Boy Scouts posed for the statue between 1914 and 1937, and the final work is a composite of its models. IAS files contain excerpt from Scout Memorabilia, n.d., detailing history of Tait's Scout statues and related unpublished essay by Turner Moon.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland, Baltimore 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 MD000214
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