Ernest Moore Viquesney American sculptor best known for his very popular World War I monument Spirit of the American Doughboy

Spirit of the American Doughboy

The Spirit of the American Doughboy is a pressed copper sculpture by E. M. Viquesney, designed to honor the veterans and casualties of World War I...

, installed in front of many American city halls and courthouses and in public parks and cemeteries in the years 1920 through 1940. The exact number of versions of the work will probably never be determined, but it is approaching 140, in 38 different states. 153 are listed in the SIRIS database.

Viquesney also produced at least one World War II monument, "Spirit of the American Yank" and various other World War I memorials, "Spirit of the American Navy".

He is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Spencer, Indiana

Spencer, Indiana

Spencer is a town in Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,217 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Owen County.Spencer is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

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Sources

• E. M. Viquesney Biography by Alan Anderson at http://www.orgsites.com/ca/emv-doughboy-searchers/index.html
• Doughboy Searcher
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, American War Monuments, unpublished manuscript