The Doughboy - Columbus, OH - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This memorial occupies a prime location in Capitol Square at the west entrance to the beautiful Ohio Statehouse. It shares guard duties with a statue of a Spanish-American War soldier.

The Smithsonian Art Inventory describes the statue as follows:

"A figure of a male soldier, cast in bronze with self base, mounted on a square stone base. Bronze plaques are inset on three sides of the base. The sculpture and plaques are patinated a red-brown color, with bright metal highlights."

The following description is from the Ohio Statehouse website:

"The Doughboy was erected in 1930, the work of Arthur Ivone and marks Ohio's participation in the First World War. Referring to rank and file soldiers as "doughboys" is closely associated with World War I but the term goes back further and has several possible explanations. The most common of these explanations is that the large buttons on the men’s uniforms looked like the doughy dumplings eaten in soup. A sweeter story is that the name is connected to the enthusiasm that soldiers had for fried dough-doughnuts!"

The inscriptions on the four plaques on the base of the statue read:

PLAQUE ON FRONT OF BASE:

To Justice in War
And
Lasting Peace After Victory
1917 — 1918

PLAQUE ON LEFT OF BASE:

To the Women of America
In
The World War,
They Served Nobly in a Just Cause.

PLAQUE ON RIGHT OF BASE:

To the Armed Forces of the United States
"With the Going Down of the Sun
And in the Morning
We Shall Remember Them."

PLAQUE ON BACK OF BASE:

Ohio World War Memorial
Authorized by Act of the
88th General Assembly of Ohio
Myers Y. Cooper, Governor.
Dedicated November 22, 1930.
Commission
Chas. W. Montgomery
Miss Pauline F. Abrams
Arthur W. Reynolds
Horace S. Keifer
Gilson D. Light
R.G. Ingersoll

TITLE: The Doughboy ARTIST(S): Arthur Ivone DATE: 1930. MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: cream-colored stone, perhaps limestone. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS OH000666 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Ohio Statehouse 1 Capitol Square Columbus, OH 43215 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: The Smithsonian Art Inventory states that there are only three plaques on the base of the statue, but there are actually four (although the plaque on the back of the statue does appear different and may have been added at the time of its dedication or later). Also the Smithsonian Art Inventory does not include the inscriptions on the plaques on the base of the statue. The inscriptions are provided in the Long Description above.

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