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    		• McKenzie, R. Tait,
     
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    		• Figure male -- Child
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
     
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    		• Stele
     
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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: 
    Installed 1937.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 5 x 2 1/2 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 2 1/2 x 2 ft.; Stele: approx. 9 x 5 x 2 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Stele behind figure:) TRUSTWORTHY OBEDIENT/LOYAL CHEERFUL/HELPFUL THRIFTY/FRIENDLY BRAVE/COURTEOUS CLEAN/KIND REVERENT (Top rear of base:) R. Tait McKenzie 1937 signed
    Description: 
    Standing youth wearing boy scout uniform, shirt with cravat, shorts and knee socks. He holds his hat against his chest with his proper right hand and there is a hatchet attached to his belt on his proper left side. The figure is installed on a base which is in front of a stele bearing an inscription.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Child -- Full length
    Occupation -- Service -- Scouting
    Dress -- Uniform -- Scout Uniform
    Object -- Tool -- Axe
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
    Stele
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Boy Scouts of America, Greater Pittsburgh Council, 1275 Bedford Avenue, Flag Plaza, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
    Remarks: 
    The Boy Scout statue was originally created as a statuette in 1914 at the suggestion of Dr. Charles D. Hart, then president of the Philadelphia Council. An updated life-sized version, from which this piece is cast, was created in 1937 for the opening of the Philadelphia Council's new headquarter's building (IAS record 88320102). A total of five Boy Scouts posed for the statue between 1914 and 1937, and the final statue is a composite of its models. IAS files contain excerpt from Scout Memorabilia, n.d., which gives detailed history of Tait's Scout statues, and related unpublished essay by Turner Moon.
    References: 
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 97-98.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA5101, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 136.
    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 64480071
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