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American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory

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Type
  
Sculpture

Artist
  
Alonzo Victor Lewis

Material
  
Bronze sculpture

Medium
  
Bronze

Created
  
1932

Year
  
1932

American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory

Condition
  
"Treatment urgent" (1994)

Location
  
Seattle, Washington, United States

Similar
  
Lundeberg Derby Monument, Seattle Monolith, Chief of the Suquamish – Chief Seattle

American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory, also known as Armistice and Spirit of the American Doughboy, is an outdoor 1932 bronze sculpture and war memorial by Alonzo Victor Lewis, originally installed outside Seattle Center's Veterans Hall, and later relocated to Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was originally commissioned in 1921 in plaster and was called American Doughboy Bringing Home the Bacon. In 1932, funds for a permanent memorial led to the dedication of a bronze cast with "certain changes in appearance from the original". The sculpture was surveyed and deemed "treatment urgent" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in August 1994.

In 1998, the statue was relocated to Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.

References

American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory Wikipedia