Mahonri Mackintosh Young

Mrs. Duncan Phillips, Washington, D.C.

Phillips New York, April 19, 1986, lot 473

Wolf Family Collection No. 0840 (acquired from the above)

Thomas E. Toone, Mahonri Young: His Life and Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, p. 98, illustration of another cast (as The Angry Saxon or The Buffalo)

Norma Davis, The Song of Joys: The Biography of Mahonri Mackintosh Young: Sculptor, Painter, Etcher, Provo, Utah, 1999, p. 150, illustration of another cast (as The Angry Saxon, The Buffalo or The Colored Doughboy)

The Black Doughboy is a rare example of a Black soldier depicted in early 20th century American bronze work. It was inspired by Augustus Saint-Gaudens's important The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, which in 1897 honored the first all-Black regiment to fight in the Civil War. Here, however, Mahonri Mackintosh Young honors the Black soldiers who fought in World War I. He depicts the figure with a high level of detail and outfits him with historical accuracy, anchoring the soldier very solidly in the realities of combat.