FACTOID # 101: The United States has the world's highest marriage rate - as well as the world's highest divorce rate.
 
 Home   Encyclopedia   Statistics   Countries A-Z   Flags   Maps   Education   Forum   FAQ   About 
 
WHAT'S NEW
RECENT ARTICLES
More Recent Articles »
 

SEARCH ALL

FACTS & STATISTICS    Advanced view

Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums:

 

 

(* = Graphable)

 

 


Encyclopedia > Cyrus Dallin
Appeal to the Great Spirit - a life-size bronze statue cast by Cyrus E. Dallin in 1909.
Enlarge
Menotomy Indian Hunter (1911) in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861-November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor who created more than 260 works, including well-known statues of Paul Revere and Native Americans. He also sculpted the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake City Temple. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x2060, 701 KB) Appeal to the Great Spirit by sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin, outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1803x2060, 701 KB) Appeal to the Great Spirit by sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin, outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 949 KB) Menotomy Indian Hunter, by sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 949 KB) Menotomy Indian Hunter, by sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin. ... Arlington is a town in eastern Massachusetts, six miles northwest of Boston, latitude 42 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 71 degrees 09 minutes west. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Salt Lake Citys top tourist draw. ...


Dallin was born in Springville, Utah, to a family then belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At age 19, he moved to Boston to study sculpture with T. H. Bartlett, and in 1883 entered a competition for an equestrian statue of Paul Revere. No entries were selected at that time, but over the next 58 years Dallin made seven versions of Paul Revere. Just a clarification, Mr. Dallin was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And the Angel Moroni was not the inspiration of his work it was the Angel in the book of revelations that when forth with a trumpet issuing in the second coming. It was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that named it the Angel Moroni. Springville is a city located in Utah County, Utah. ... The Salt Lake City temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ...


In Boston, he became a colleague of Augustus St. Gaudens and a close friend of John Singer Sargent. He married Vittoria Colonna Murray in 1891, moved to Arlington, Massachusetts in 1900, where he lived for the rest of his life, and there raised three children. Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 _ Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish-French American sculptor of the Beaux Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. ... Self Portrait, oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a painter known for his portraits. ... Arlington is a town in eastern Massachusetts, six miles northwest of Boston, latitude 42 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 71 degrees 09 minutes west. ...


Dallin's works include: Boston's Paul Revere statue; busts of the Mormon church's Founding Fathers, Utah's pioneers, and the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake City Temple; the well-known Appeal to the Great Spirit outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and a number of war memorials, statues of statesmen, generals, and mythic figures. Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ...


He is remembered in Arlington with a museum of his work, and the Cyrus E. Dallin primary school named in his honor. More than 30 examples of his work are on display at the Springville Museum of Art, in Springville, Utah. Springville is a city located in Utah County, Utah. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Cyrus Edwin Dallin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (365 words)
Dallin was born in Springville, Utah, to a family then belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dallin was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and turned down the initial offer to sculpt the Angel Moroni for the top of the LDS Salt Lake City Temple.
Dallin's works include: Boston's Paul Revere statue; busts of the Mormon church's Founding Fathers, Utah's pioneers, and the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake City Temple; the well-known Appeal to the Great Spirit outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and a number of war memorials, statues of statesmen, generals, and mythic figures.
Utah Artists Project - Cyrus Edward Dallin (844 words)
Cyrus Dallin was born in Springville, Utah, in 1861.
On a 1903 trip to his home town, Cyrus Dallin was invited to make an inspirational speech to the town's students; he agreed, and during the lecture, became sufficiently moved by the example his own success could provide that he offered to donate the plaster model for this fifth Paul Revere to the Springville schools.
Dallin produced most of his work in the East, and in 1923 he received a master's degree from Tufts College, and in 1936 Boston University bestowed an honorary doctorate upon the "Old American Master." In 1943, at the age of 82, the artist died at his home in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts.
  More results at FactBites »


 

COMMENTARY     


Share your thoughts, questions and commentary here
Your name
Your comments
Please enter the 5-letter protection code

Want to know more?
Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums:

 


Lesson Plans | Student Area | Student FAQ | Reviews | Press Releases |  Feeds | Contact
The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL.
Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.
All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved.
Usage implies agreement with terms.