Dutch Boy Paint

Dutch Boy
Product type	Paint
Owner	Sherwin-Williams (1980)
Country	U.S.
Introduced	1907
Markets	U.S.
Previous owners	National Lead Company (1907–1980)
Website	dutchboy.com

The Dutch Boy Group is a paint manufacturing company currently headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1907 by the National Lead Company, the Dutch Boy Paints brand is currently a subsidiary of the Consumer Group division of the 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.^[1] Modern Dutch Boy paint is a lead-free acrylic paint.

Trademark

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.^[2]

Products

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

References

^ Jorgensen, Janice (1994). Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Durable goods. the University of Michigan: St. James Press. p. 120. ISBN 9781558623354. Retrieved 2015-03-12.
^ Don Bryant (2010). "Dutch Boy Painter". The Grand Rapids Public Museum. Retrieved 2015-03-12.

External links

Official website

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[1] Jorgensen, Janice (1994). Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Durable goods. the University of Michigan: St. James Press. p. 120. ISBN 9781558623354. Retrieved 2015-03-12.

[2] Don Bryant (2010). "Dutch Boy Painter". The Grand Rapids Public Museum. Retrieved 2015-03-12.

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