Uniformed Youth Group Art: Portraits


Figure 1.--The potrrait is a Scout as we can clearly see from the flur-de-lis symbol on his breast pocket. We believe that he was a Danish Scout, although we are unsure when the portrait was painted, other than the first part of the 20th Century. The boy is unidentified. Neither do we know the artist. The portrait was signed in monogram "ME or EM" (?).

We note some painted portraits of boys in youth groups. These like the modernistic painting of an American Cub on the beginning page of the art section, are relatively rare. This is because of the cost. There are countless photographic portraits, but very few painted ones. Had youth groups developed earlier before the advent of photography this wuld of course have been different. These portraits are of course impages commissioned by the partents anf have nothing to do with the actual youth organization--except the boys are members. Our archieve to date includes very few such paintings, but we will add more as we find them. The potrrait is a Scout as we can clearly see from the flur-de-lis symbol on his breast pocket. We believe that he was a Danish Scout, although we are unsure when the portrait was painted, other than the first part of the 20th Century. The boy is unidentified. Neither do we know the artist. The portrait was signed in monogram "ME or EM" (?).






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Created: May 27, 2004
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