The E. M. Viquesney Doughboy Database
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  • Other Works by E. M. Viquesney
    • 1904: The Early Years
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    • 1916: Booklet Illustrations
    • 1920: Burial Vault Patent
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    • 1922: The "Imp-O-Luck"
    • 1922: The United States Infantry Association Trophy
    • 1923: The Klan-Lite
    • 1923 (est.) - "GOB" - "The Spirit of the American Sailor"
    • 1925: The Viquesney Block
    • 1926: "The Spirit of the American Navy"
    • 1927: "The Spirit of the Skies"
    • 1928: The Tivoli Theatre
    • 1928: Plaque at Malvern, Pennsylvania
    • 1929: "Mother" (Madonna and Child)
    • 1930: "Zero Hour"
    • 1930: Flanders Cross Memorial
    • 1930s (est.) - Joan of Arc
    • 1930s (est): Service Plaque
    • 1931: Knute Rockne Bust
    • 1934: "The Unveiling"
    • 1935: Viquesney's Version of "Over the Top"
    • 1935 (est.): Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy
    • 1936: "Resting Doughboy"
    • 1936 (est.): Alf Landon Bust
    • 1936, 1937: "The Spirit of America" / "The Spirit of the Flag",
    • 1938: "Lincoln as an Indiana Boy" >
      • Guido Rebechini's Lincoln Lookalike
    • 1939: Soldiers Memorial Pavilion
    • 1940: "Creation"
    • 1942: "The Yanks Again", "Eagle's Watch", and "Remember Pearl Harbor"
    • 1943: "The Spirit of the Fighting Yank" >
      • Chicago, Illinois
      • Bloomington, Indiana
      • Port Huron, Michigan
      • Belmont, North Carolina
      • Oil City, Pennsylvania
    • 1946: "Comrades", Viquesney's Last Piece
    • Career-long Output: Plaques, Grave Markers
  • "And So the Scene Closes"
  • Carrying On: Frederic L. Hollis
  • E. M. Viquesney vs. John Paulding
    • Paulding's Model 2043-A
    • Paulding's Model 2043-B
    • Paulding's Model 2043-C
    • Paulding's Model 2043-D
  • Viquesney Doughboy Lookalikes and Derivatives
    • Greenville, Alabama (Engraved Panel)
    • Montgomery, Alabama
    • Tampa, Florida
    • New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Union City (West Hoboken), New Jersey
    • Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
    • Franklin, Pennsylvania
    • Arcadia, Wisconsin
    • The McNeel Marble Co. Doughboys >
      • Eufaula, Alabama
      • Headland, Alabama
      • Troy, North Carolina
      • Clarksville, Tennessee
      • Texarkana, Texas
    • Eagle Bronze Works, Fiske Iron Works Doughboys
    • Walter A. Sinz Doughboys
    • Other Viquesney-Inspired Lookalikes
  • Viquesney Doughboy Myths
  • Viquesney Document Archive
  • Epilogue
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Doughboy, east end bridge, north side.
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Doughboy, west end bridge, north side.
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Variant Doughboy, east end bridge, south side.
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''Sailor'', west end bridge, south side.

PALATKA, FLORIDA

N 29° 38.667 / W 081° 36.934 (East end)
 N 29° 38.827 / W 081° 37.685 (West end)


Copyright version 1920 (Doughboy), est. 1926 (others), sheet bronze.

Smithsonian Art Inventory Control Numbers: 47260011, FL000478, FL000479, *47260137.
*(Misidentified "Sailor" as "Spirit of the American Navy")
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West end statues are at N. 1st Street and Reid Street (Hwy. 17).
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An old photo shows one of the Doughboys at one of the original bridge pylons. Note the rifle is already gone.
The four sculptures shown in the color photos above were dedicated November 11, 1927 at the two ends of Memorial Park Bridge over the St. Johns River near downtown Palatka, and later placed in the same relative positions when the New Memorial Bridge was completed in 1976. There is an informational marker near one of the Doughboys which erroneously spells Viquesney's name as "Viguesney", and claims "The Spirit of the American Doughboy" is the only statue "endorsed" by the American Legion (it never was; in fact, Viquesney was forced by legal action in 1936 to cease such claims).

The top two photos are at the bridge's
county (east) end, and the bottom two are at the town (west) end. The photos on the left are on the South side of the bridge and those at the right are on the North side.

The bottom left Doughboy's rifle has been replaced by a pistol in the left hand, apparently after the rifle was broken off by vandals swinging from it (a fairly common experience). The upper left Doughboy's rifle has been replaced by three sticks of dynamite in the left hand.
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palatka's variant doughboy

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The Doughboy statue in the upper right color photo above differs from all other Doughboys placed by Viquesney that have been located except Lakemore, Ohio. It’s referred to in Palatka as the "Parade Rest" Doughboy, even though its stance is more like what the U. S. Army described as the "sling arms" position.

Curiously, Viquesney noted Palatka as the location of "2 Doughboys, 2 sailors" in a partial list of locations published around 1936, but though there are actually three Doughboys and one Sailor here. it's likely that Viquesney used stock items from Friedley-Voshardt Company for both this variant Doughboy and the Sailor below, as both appear in other locations not associated with Viquesney. They are 
probably the work of Friedley-Voshart's in-house master sculptor, Paul Mohrmann.

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A stone maker to the right of the variant Doughboy reads:

OLD
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
PARK

PROJECT FUNDED BY
STATE of FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES
F.R.D.A.R. GRANT
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Palatka's  VARIANT "Sailor"

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1926 catalog illustration.
Palatka's "Navy" sculpture shown at right differs from installations of Viquesney's "Spirit of the American Navy", but was still long thought to be just a variant of that work.

However, the sculpture appears in a 1926 Friedley-Voshardt foundry catalog with an item number of S9008 and only the title "Sailor", leading us to believe this was simply a stock item from the company that Viquesney used to fulfill Palatka's large order of four statues (and another two at Clearwater, Florida, dedicated the same day). The fact that it also appears at St. Ignace, Michigan, as part of an impressive WWI memorial and a site not associated with Viquesney, lends credence to this notion.

The work is misidentified as "Spirit of the American Navy" in the Smithsonian Institution's Inventory of American Sculpture (IAS) and also contains what we consider to be a spurious news reference to sculptor Gutzon Borglum as the artist. It's doubtful that a sculptor as renowned as Borglum would ever agree to have any of his works be sold from a sheet metal company catalog. The "Sailor" is likely the work of Paul Mohrmann, Head of Sculpture at Friedley-Voshardt Company.

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Photo provided by Mary Murphy, Putnam County Archivist.
Five young ladies at the Palatka end of the Memorial Bridge during the November 11, 1927 joint dedication of the bridge, the park, and the Plataka Doughboys and Sailor. The object on the hood of the auto is a model of the bridge.
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Links:
Historical Marker Database
waymarking.com
palatkadowntown.com
fineartamerica.com/sailor
fineartamerica.com/marine
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