The Ideal Scout

Description

The Boy Scout statue was originally created as a statuette in 1914 at the suggestion of Dr. Charles D. Hart, then president of the Philadelphia Council. An updated life-sized version was commissioned by the Philadelphia Council in 1937 for its new headquarters. A total of five Boy Scouts posed for the statue between 1914 and 1937, and the final statue is a composite of its models. This bronze copy was acquired by the Sioux Council for Scouting upon relocating to its new headquarters in 2006. For more information about the history of the original sculpture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ideal_Scout