Lot 38
Cyrus Edwin Dallin(1861-1944)The Signal of Peace 12in high
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Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861-1944)
The Signal of Peace
inscribed '© C.E. Dallin 1890' (on the base) and stamped 'Gorham Founders / #61/750' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
12in high
Modeled in 1890.
inscribed '© C.E. Dallin 1890' (on the base) and stamped 'Gorham Founders / #61/750' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
12in high
Modeled in 1890.
Footnotes
Literature
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1973, pp. 94-95, 96, pl. 88, another example illustrated.
R.G. Francis, Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Done, Springville, Utah, 1976, pp. 37-40, another example illustrated.
K. Ahrens, Cyrus E. Dallin: His Small Bronzes and Plasters, University of Washington Press, 1995, no. 6, p. 37.
Exhibited
Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West, February 15 – August 11, 2013.
Conceived as the first of four important life-size equestrian monuments that illustrate the "cycle of Indian's relations with the white man", Dallin modeled a life sized version of The Signal of Peace in clay in 1899 and it was cast in Paris the following year. 1 The sculpture was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890 and the Chicago Exposition in 1893. The original life sized sculpture was purchased and donated to the city of Chicago by Judge Lambert Tree and it was dedicated in Lincoln Park in 1894 where it remains. The Signal of Peace led to Dallin receiving major recognition as a sculptor, and he was elected to the National Sculpture Society in 1893.
In The Spirit of Peace, a Sioux chief in full war bonnet sits astride a motionless horse. In his right hand he holds a spear vertically and gazes forward "totally trusting and ready to offer his friendship and good will with the newcomers." 2 Dallin was inspired to create the sculpture from a meeting he witnessed as a child between Ute Indians and United States Army officers. 3
1 P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1973, p. 94.
2 Ibid., p. 95.
3 Ibid., p. 95.
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