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Cyrus Edwin Dallin

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DALLIN, CYRUS EDWIN ), American sculp tor, was born at Springville (Utah) , on Nov. 22, 1861. He was a pupil of Truman H. Bart'ett in Boston, of the Icole des Beaux Arts, the Academie Julien and the sculptors Henri M. Chapu and Jean Dampt (b. 1858), in Paris, and on his return to America became instructor in modelling in the State normal art school in Boston. He is best known for his plastic representations of the North American Indian—especially for "The Signal of Peace" in Lincoln park, Chicago, "The Medicine Man," in Fairmount park, Philadelphia, and "The Appeal to the Great Spirit" in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His statue of Massasoit, the Indian chief, at Plymouth, Mass., was completed in 1921. As a boy he had lived among the Indians in the Far West and had learned their language. His later works include "Pioneer Monument," Salt Lake city; "Sir Isaac Newton," congressional library, Washington; and "Don Quixote." He won a silver medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900, and in 1906 the first prize in the competition for the soldiers' and sailors' monument at Syracuse, New York.

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