INDIANA
Viquesney's home state of Indiana has eleven of his "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statues at Attica, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Greencastle, Hartford City, Hobart, Muncie, New Castle, Peru, Spencer, and Winchester. Fort Wayne is also one of eight locations in the U.S. which has a Viquesney Doughboy paired with his "Spirit of the American Navy". There was also a full-size Doughboy on display in Viquesney's Spencer studio, which was lent to nearby towns for patriotic holidays and parades.
A Viquesney Doughboy was approved by, and supposed to have been delivered to Logansport, Indiana, but a different stone statue was installed there instead. Nobody knows why the switch was made.
Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana has a Doughboy statue which is incorrectly identified as Viquesney's "Spirit of the [American] Doughboy" in its online walking tour guide. On that basis It was also erroneously entered on Waymarking.com as a Viquesney Doughboy (now corrected), but the statue was actually crafted by the W. H. Mullins Company of Salem, Ohio, not by Viquesney. Its actual title is "War Mothers' Monument", and is listed in the Smithsonian Inventory of American Sculpture under record IN000695 with the notation "unknown sculptor". However, Bloomington's Doughboy statue is identical to those in Funkstown, Maryland, and Warren, Pennsylvania, both of which list Mullins as the artist and founder in Smithsonian IAS records MD000513 and PA001471 respectively. Lastly, Bloomington's statue is not listed in T. Perry Wesley's 1991 Viquesney Doughboy report. Although that report contains many errors, Mr. Wesley was correct in this instance by not including Bloomington's Doughboy.
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A Viquesney Doughboy was approved by, and supposed to have been delivered to Logansport, Indiana, but a different stone statue was installed there instead. Nobody knows why the switch was made.
Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana has a Doughboy statue which is incorrectly identified as Viquesney's "Spirit of the [American] Doughboy" in its online walking tour guide. On that basis It was also erroneously entered on Waymarking.com as a Viquesney Doughboy (now corrected), but the statue was actually crafted by the W. H. Mullins Company of Salem, Ohio, not by Viquesney. Its actual title is "War Mothers' Monument", and is listed in the Smithsonian Inventory of American Sculpture under record IN000695 with the notation "unknown sculptor". However, Bloomington's Doughboy statue is identical to those in Funkstown, Maryland, and Warren, Pennsylvania, both of which list Mullins as the artist and founder in Smithsonian IAS records MD000513 and PA001471 respectively. Lastly, Bloomington's statue is not listed in T. Perry Wesley's 1991 Viquesney Doughboy report. Although that report contains many errors, Mr. Wesley was correct in this instance by not including Bloomington's Doughboy.
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