In 1883, Dallin entered a competition to sculpt an equestrian statue ofPaul Revere forBoston,Massachusetts. 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 andthe full-size statue was unveiled in 1940.[4][5]
Dallin converted toUnitarianism and initially turned down the offer to sculpt theangel Moroni for the spire of the LDS Church'sSalt Lake Temple. He later accepted the commission and, after finishing the statue said, "My angel Moroni brought me nearer to God than anything I ever did."[6][7] His statue became a symbol for the LDS Church and was the model for other angel Moroni statues on the spires ofLDS Church temples.[8]
In Boston, Dallin became a colleague ofAugustus St. Gaudens and a close friend of paintersJohn Singer Sargent andWilliam McGregor Paxton with whom he played baseball for theSt. Botolph Club.[9] He married Vittoria Colonna Murray in 1891 and returned to Utah to work onThe Angel Moroni (1893). He taught for a year at theDrexel Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while completing hisSir Isaac Newton (1895) for theLibrary of Congress. In 1897, he traveled to Paris, and studied withJean Dampt. In 1889 and 1890 he developed a friendship with prominent European painterRosa Bonheur. Together they traveled toNeuilly outside of Paris to sketch the animals and cast ofBuffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show at their encampment.[10]
At the1904 Summer Olympics inSt. Louis, Dallin competed inarchery, winning the bronze medal in the team competition.[11] He finished ninth in the Double American round and 12th in the Double York round.[12]
The full-sizestaff version ofProtest of the Sioux was exhibited at the 1904Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 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 theSpringville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah.[18]
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 theBoston Museum of Fine Arts in 1912. Smaller versions of the work are in numerous American museums and in the permanent collection of theWhite House.
In 1929, a full-sized bronze version ofAppeal to the Great Spirit—personally overseen and approved by Dallin— was installed inMuncie, Indiana, 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 thePassing of the Buffalo sculpture, which had been commissioned byGeraldine 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.[19] In 1985, that plaster was used to cast a one-third-size bronze version, which is now inWoodward Park (Tulsa), at the intersection of 21st and Peoria Streets.[20] There is also a version at St. John University in Wisconsin.
TheBeach Boys based the logo for theirBrother Records label on Dallin's sculpture, Appeal to the Great Spirit.[25] In 2020, theHood Museum of Art atDartmouth College commissionedCree artistKent Monkman to prepare a work and he paintedThe Great Mystery, which reinterprets the Appeal to the Great Spirit sculpture incorporating aMark Rothko painting in the background. The work is displayed near a mid-sized version of Dallin's sculpture.[26]
From 2017-2020 a race horse named Cyrus Dallin raced in the United Kingdom.[27]
^abcdDearinger, David (2004).Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 (1st ed.). Hudson Hills Press. p. 144.ISBN1-55595-029-9.
^Broder, Patricia Janis; McCracken, Harold (1974).Bronzes of the American West. New York: Harry N. Abrams.ISBN978-0-8109-0133-9.OCLC640913.
^"TAVERN CLUBMEN DEFEAT ST. BOTOLPH".The Boston Daily Globe. June 3, 1905. p. 5.
^Francis, Rell (1976).Cyrus E. Dallin Let Justice Be Done. Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. pp. 27,39–40.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Catalogue of the Exhibition of American Sculpture by the National Sculpture Society. University of Michigan Library as retrieved from Google Books: National Sculpture Society. 1923. p. 41.
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