Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American

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best known for his depictions of Native Americans. He created more than 260 works, including the ''Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere'' in

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; ''the

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'' atop

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; and ''

Appeal to the Great Spirit ''Appeal to the Great Spirit'' is a 1908 equestrian statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Cyrus Dallin, located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It portrays a Native Americans in the United States, Native American on horseback facing skyward ...

'' (1908), at the

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. He was also an accomplished painter and an Olympic archer.

Early life and education

Dallin was born in Springville,

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, the son of Thomas and Jane (Hamer) Dallin, both of whom had left

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before their marriage. At age 19, Dallin moved from Utah to

to study sculpture with Truman Howe Bartlett. Two wealthy Utah mining investors; C.H. Blanchard and Jacob Lawrence funded his move. He then studied in with Henri Chapu and at the

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Career

In 1883, Dallin entered a competition to sculpt an equestrian statue of

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for

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. He won the competition and received a contract, but six versions of his model were rejected. The fifth model was not accepted because of fundraising problems. The seventh version was accepted in 1939 and the full-size statue was unveiled in 1940. Dallin converted to

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and initially turned down the offer to sculpt the

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for the spire of the LDS Church's

. He later accepted the commission and, after finishing the statue said, "My angel Moroni brought me nearer to God than anything I ever did." Levi Edgar Young, "The Angel Moroni and Cyrus Dallin", '' Improvement Era'', April 1953, p. 234. His statue became a symbol for the LDS Church and was the model for other angel Moroni statues on the spires of LDS Church temples. In Boston, Dallin became a colleague of Augustus St. Gaudens and a close friend of painters

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and William McGregor Paxton with whom he played baseball for the St. Botolph Club. He married Vittoria Colonna Murray in 1891 and returned to Utah to work on ''The Angel Moroni'' (1893). He taught for a year at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while completing his ''Sir Isaac Newton'' (1895) for the

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. In 1897, he traveled to Paris, and studied with Jean Dampt. In 1889 and 1890 he developed a friendship with prominent European painter

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. Together they traveled to Neuilly outside of Paris to sketch the animals and cast of

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's Wild West Show at their encampment. He entered a ''

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'' statuette in the Salon of 1897, and '' The Medicine Man'' in the Salon of 1899 and the

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. The couple moved to

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, in 1900, where they established their residence and raised three sons. At the

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, Dallin competed in

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, winning the bronze medal in the team competition. He finished ninth in the Double American round and 12th in the Double York round. From 1899 to 1941, he was a member of the faculty of Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where his more notable students included Bashka Paeff, Vincent Schofield Wickham and Ruth Johnston Surez. In 1912, he was elected to the

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as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1930. He also was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the National Association of Arts and Letters, as well as an associate at the

Equestrian sculptures of indigenous peoples

Dallin created four prominent equestrian sculptures of indigenous people: '' A Signal of Peace'', or ''The Welcome'' (1890); '' The Medicine Man'', or ''The Warning'' (1899); '' Protest of the Sioux'', or ''The Defiance'' (1904); and ''

'' (1908). ''A Signal of Peace'' was exhibited at the 1893

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and was installed in Chicago's

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in 1894. ''The Medicine Man'' was exhibited at the 1899

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, and the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where it won a gold medal. It was installed in Philadelphia's

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in 1903. The full-size staff version of ''Protest of the Sioux'' was exhibited at the 1904

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, where it won a gold medal. The mounted brave defiantly shaking his fist at an enemy was never cast as a full-size bronze and survives only in statuette form. A one-third-size bronze version, cast in 1986, is at the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah. ''Appeal to the Great Spirit'' became an icon of American art and is Dallin's most famous work. The full-size version was cast in bronze in Paris and won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon. It was installed outside the main entrance to the

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in 1912. Smaller versions of the work are in numerous American museums and in the permanent collection of the

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. In 1929, a full-sized bronze version of ''Appeal to the Great Spirit''—personally overseen and approved by Dallin— was installed in

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, at the intersection of Walnut and Granville Streets, and is considered by many residents to be a symbol of their city. Benefactors of the city would later add to their Dallin portfolio through the purchase of the Passing of the Buffalo sculpture, which had been commissioned by Geraldine R. Dodge. A one-third-size plaster version of the Appeal was given to Tulsa, Oklahoma's Central High in 1923. It stood in the school's main hall until 1976, when Central closed its doors. In 1985, that plaster was used to cast a one-third-size bronze version, which is now in Woodward Park (Tulsa), at the intersection of 21st and Peoria Streets. There is also a version at St. John University in Wisconsin. File:IndianPeace.JPG, '' A Signal of Peace'' (1890) in

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'' (1908) at the Museum of Fine Arts in

Death

When he died in 1944, his life was celebrated in a Unitarian service at Arlington's First Parish Church. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in

Legacy

More than sixty of Dallin's works are collected in the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum located in the Jefferson Cutter House in Arlington, Massachusetts. Many of his sculptures are also in the vicinity. An elementary school in Arlington, Massachusetts is named for him. The Taylor-Dallin House in Arlington where Dallin and his family lived is a privately owned residence and has not been listed on the

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. More than 30 of Dallin's works are on display at the Springville Museum of Art in his birthplace of Springville, Utah. The Dallin House at 253 S. 300 East Street in Springville is listed on the

. Dallin's papers are at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. The

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based the logo for their

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label on Dallin's sculpture, Appeal to the Great Spirit. In 2020, the Hood Museum of Art at

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commissioned

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to prepare a work and he painted ''The Great Mystery'', which reinterprets the Appeal to the Great Spirit sculpture incorporating a

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painting in the background. The work is displayed near a mid-sized version of Dallin's sculpture. From 2017-2020 a race horse named Cyrus Dallin raced in the United Kingdom.

Selected works

*''Model for Equestrian Statue of Lafayette'' (1889) at

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*''The Angel Moroni'' (1893), atop

*''

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'' (1893), Main and South Temple Streets in

*''Sunol'' (1893), Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in Goshen, New York *''Sir Isaac Newton'' (1895), Main Reading Room,

*''Don Quixote de La Mancha: The Knight of the Windmill'' (1898), Springville Museum of Art,

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* Equestrian statue of Paul Revere (1899, dedicated 1940), Paul Revere Mall, opposite Old North Church in

*''

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'' ''Tablet'' (1912) at Museum of Fine Arts in

*''View of Hobble Creek'' (ca 1900), Utah Museum of Fine Arts in

*''

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Tablet'' (1902), Richmond County Courthouse in

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*'' The Picket'' (1905), Battle of Hanover in Hanover, Pennsylvania *''Victory'' (1909), Pioneer Park, Provo, Utah *'' General Winfield Scott Hancock'' (1909–10), Pennsylvania State Memorial at

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*'' Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument'' (1909–1911) at Clinton Square in

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*'' My Boys (Dallin Sculpture)'' (c. 1910) at Robbins Memorial Library in

*'' Robbins Memorial Flagstaff'' (1914) at Arlington Center Historic District in

*''

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'' (1915, dedicated 1922), Massachusetts Statehouse in

*'' Alma Mater (Missouri Sculpture)'' (1916), Mary Institute of Washington University in

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''Chief Justice William Cushing Memorial Table''t
(1919) Scituate Historical Society in

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*''Governor William Bradford'' (1920, dedicated 1976),

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* Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar (1920) *'' Signing the Mayflower Compact'' (1921) in

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* ''Boy and His Dog'' (1923) in

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* ''Memory'' (1924) at Sherborn War Memorial in

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*''Spirit of Life'' (1929) at Springville Museum of Art in

*''Pioneer Women of Utah'' (1931) at Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah *''Memorial to The Pioneer Mothers of Springville'' (1932) at Springville City Park in Springville, Utah

Indigenous American works

*'' A Signal of Peace'' (1890) at

, Illinois *'' The Medicine Man'' (1899) at

*'' Protest of the Sioux'' (1904) **A one-third-size bronze version (cast 1986) is in the Springville Museum of Art in

*''

'' (1908) at

**Smaller bronze versions are in Muncie, Indiana and the Museum of the West in

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**A one-third-size plaster version and a 1985 bronze version cast from that plaster in

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*'' The Scout'' (1910, dedicated 1922) at Penn Valley Park,

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**A one-third-size bronze version is in

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, Spain, a 1992 gift from

, Seville's

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*''Chief Joseph'' (1911) at the New York Historical Society in

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*''Geronimo'' (1926) *'' Menotomy Indian Hunter'' (1911) at the Arlington Center Historic District in

*''

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'' (1920) at Cole's Hill opposite

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**Other casts are at Utah State Capitol in

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, Springville Museum of Art in

, Mill Creek Park in

, and

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*''On the Warpath #28'' (c. 1920) at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in

and Brookgreen Garden Museum, Brookgreen, South Carolina *'' Passing of the Buffalo'', also known as ''The Last Arrow'' (1929) in

*''Pretty Eagle,'' a portrait bust (cast in 1927-sculpted earlier) *'' Robbins Memorial Flagstaff,'' (1914) a Native American woman with an infant, at Town Hall in

*''Sacagawea'' (1914) at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West in

with a plaster version at Cyrus Dallin Art Museum in

*''Sitting Bull'' (1926)

Gallery

File:Lafayette-model.JPG, ''Model for Lafayette'' (1889) at the

File:Alma Mater statue by Cyrus Dallin - vertical.jpg, Alma Mater (Missouri sculpture) (1916) at the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School File:Loc-newton-highsmith (portrait).jpg, ''Sir Isaac Newton'' (1895) in the

File:2010 NorthEnd Boston 4621037522.jpg, ''

'' (1899, dedicated 1940) at Old North Church in

File:Mary Baker Eddy Sculpture by Cyrus Dallin.jpg, Mary Baker Eddy-This work is in storage. File:The Picket.jpg, '' The Picket'' (1905), depicting the Battle of Hanover in Hanover, Pennsylvania File:Soldiers-sailors 1910.jpg, '' Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument'' (1909–1911) at Clinton Square in

File:Civil-War-memorial-Clinton-Square-01.JPG, ''Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument'' detail File:KC Scout.jpg, '' The Scout'' (1910) at Penn Valley Park in

File:My Boys by Cyrus Dallin - IMG 3056.JPG, ''My Boys'' (c. 1910) at Robbins Memorial Library in

File:WLA nyhistorical Cyrus Edwin Dallin.jpg, ''Chief Joseph'' (1911) at New York Historical Society in

File:Menotomy Indian Hunter by Cyrus E. Dallin - Arlington, Massachusetts.JPG, '' Menotomy Indian Hunter'' (1911) at Arlington Center Historic District in

File:Robbins Memorial Flagstaff, Arlington, MA - b.jpg, '' Robbins Memorial Flagstaff'' (1914) at the Arlington Center Historic District in

File:Anne Hutchinson statue.jpeg, ''Anne Hutchinson'' (1915, dedicated 1922) at the

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File:Massasoit statue plymouth 2007.jpg, ''Massasoit'' (1920) opposite

File:Pilgrim tercentenary half dollar commemorative reverse.jpg, Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar (1920) File:MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg, '' Signing the Mayflower Compact (1921) in

'' File:Monument, Memory Statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin - Sherborn, MA - DSC03006.JPG, ''

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'' (1924) at the Sherborn War Memorial in

File:Cyrus Dallin Springville Pioneer Mother Memorial.JPG, ''Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of Springville'' (1932) in

File:Woburn Return of the Troops.jpg, ''Woburn Return of the Troops''

References

External links

* * * List of sculptures by Cyrus Dallin in Massachusetts
The Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Arlington, Massachusetts

Springville Museum of Art Springville, Utah
*

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