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Doughboy, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Viquesney, E. M., 1876-1946, sculptor. (copy after) McNeel Marble Works, fabricator. Title:  Doughboy, (sculpture). Other Titles:  World War I Monument, (sculpture). Dates:  Copyrighted 1920. Dedicated June 9, 1929. Medium:  Figure: marble; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Figure: approx. H. 9 ft.; Base: approx. H. 4 1/2 ft. Inscription:  (On front of base:) In honor of Montgomery County's soldiers and sailors, World War/1917-1918. Description:  Figure of a World War I infantryman advancing through the stumps and barbed wire of No Man's Land. He holds a grenade in his upraised proper right hand and a rifle in his proper left hand. Subject:  History -- United States -- World War I Figure male -- Full length Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform Object -- Weapon -- Gun Object -- Weapon -- Grenade Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Tennessee -- Clarksville Sculpture Owner:  Tennessee National Guard Armory, 1801 Ft. Campbell Boulevard, Clarksville, Tennessee 37040 Provenance:  Formerly located Clarksville High School, Greenwood Avenue, Clarksville, Tennessee Remarks:  Statue bought by auxiliary of American Legion in Clarksville. SOS! surveyor indicates unidentified newspaper articles refer to statue as either Georgia marble or carved in Italy from Italian marble, but believes sculpture to be of softer, more porous material. Statue was relocated to its current site in 1972, when the old Clarksville High School was sold. IAS files contain articles from the Clarksburg Leaf-Chronicle, Oct. 30, 1928 and June 9, 1929. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Tennessee survey, 1992. Wesley, T. Perry, 1991. 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 47260104   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 47260104 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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