(Boy Scout), (sculpture).

(Boy Scout), (sculpture).

McKenzie, R. Tait, 1867-1938, sculptor.

(Boy Scout), (sculpture).

Ideal Boy Scout, (sculpture).

Original cast 1937.

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Figure: approx. H. 5 ft. 10 in.; Base: approx. H. 5 in.

A Boy Scout in uniform stands with his proper left hand holding an axe on his belt and his proper right hand holding his hat to his chest.

Figure male -- Child -- Full length

Occupation -- Service -- Scouting

Dress -- Uniform -- Scout Uniform

Object -- Tool -- Axe

Outdoor Sculpture -- Mississippi -- Jackson

Boy Scouts of America, 855 Riverside Drive, Mississippi Headquarters Building, Jackson, Mississippi 39202

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. The Jackson sculpture, donated by Rex I. Brown, was the twenty-first cast made. IAS files contain excerpt from Scout Memorabilia, n.d., detailing history of Tait's Scout statues and related unpublished essay by Turner Moon.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1993.

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