Dutch Boy Paint

{{Short description|American paint manufacturer}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2019}}{{infobox brand | logo = [[File:LeadPaint1.JPG|200px]] | name = Dutch Boy | type = [[Paint]] | currentowner = [[Sherwin-Williams]] (1980) | origin = U.S. | introduced = {{Start date|1907}} | discontinued = | related = | markets = U.S. | previousowners = [[NL Industries|National Lead Company]] (1907–1980) | trademarkregistrations = | ambassador = | tagline = | website = {{URL|dutchboy.com}} }}

The '''Dutch Boy Group''' is a paint manufacturing company currently headquartered in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. Founded in 1907 by the [[NL Industries|National Lead Company]], the '''Dutch Boy Paints''' brand is currently a subsidiary of the Consumer Group division of the [[Sherwin-Williams|Sherwin-Williams Company]], which acquired it in 1980, two years after the [[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]]'s directive banning the manufacturing of lead housepaint went into effect.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jorgensen |first=Janice |date=1994 |title=Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Durable goods |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y10RAQAAMAAJ&q=dutch+boy+sherwin+1980 |location=the University of Michigan |publisher=St. James Press |page=120 |isbn=9781558623354 |access-date=2015-03-12 }}</ref> Modern Dutch Boy paint is a lead-free [[acrylic paint]].

== Trademark == [[File:Dutch Boy Painter.jpg|thumb|Original painting done for the National Lead Company and used as the logo]]

Dutch Boy uses a stylized Dutch child as its trademark. He was painted by [[Lawrence Carmichael Earle]] and modeled after an [[Irish-American]] lad who lived near him named Michael Edward Brady.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wellswooster.com/earle/dutch_boy_painter.htm |title=Dutch Boy Painter |author=Don Bryant|date=2010 |website= |publisher=The Grand Rapids Public Museum |access-date=2015-03-12}}</ref>

== Products == *Ceiling paints *Exterior paints *Faux finishes *Interior paints *Paint samples *Primers *Porch and Floor

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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.dutchboy.com/ }}

[[Category:Paint and coatings companies of the United States]] [[Category:Manufacturing companies based in Ohio]] [[Category:American companies established in 1907]] [[Category:Chemical companies established in 1907]] [[Category:1907 establishments in Ohio]]