Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute

Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute in 2006
Artist	Donald De Lue
Year	1964 (1964)
Type	Bronze and granite
Dimensions	430 cm × 300 cm × 260 cm (168 in × 120 in × 104 in)
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates	38°53′37.93″N 77°2′3.38″W / 38.8938694°N 77.0342722°W / 38.8938694; -77.0342722
Owner	National Park Service

The Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute is a 1964 public artwork by American sculptor

The rim of the pool is inscribed:

This memorial was authorized by the Congress of the United States and directed in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America in grateful tribute to the men and women whose generosity devotion and leadership have brought Scouting to the nation's youth and to honor all members of the Boy Scouts of America who in days of peace and times of peril have done their duty to God and their country.^[1]

The three figures represent various concepts. According to the National Park Service the Boy Scout "represents the aspirations of all past, present, and future Scouts throughout the world. The male figure exemplifies physical, mental, and moral fitness, love of country, good citizenship, loyalty, honor, and courage. He carries a helmet, a symbol of masculine attire. The female figure symbolizes enlightenment with the love of God and fellow man, justice, freedom, and democracy. She holds the eternal flame of God's Holy Spirit."^[2]

The sculpture was founded by Modern Art Foundry in New York.^[1]

In 1959, the 50th anniversary year of Scouting, Lyndon B. Johnson, then Senate majority leader, introduced a measure to establish the memorial.^[3] Upon approval, funds for the sculpture were raised by Boy Scouts collecting dimes throughout the country, therefore no government spending was used. The names of all the collecting Scouts are inscribed on scrolls that are placed inside the base of the unit.^[1]

The sculpture sits at the location of the

This sculpture was surveyed by Save Outdoor Sculpture! in 1993 and was described as "well maintained".^[1]

• Goode, J. (2008). Washington Sculpture. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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• List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2
• Scouting in Washington, D.C.

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