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CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN
1861 - 1944
Summary by M. Kurtzworth, American Art Society
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BiographyCyrus Edwin Dallin, American Sculpture, was born at Springfield, Utah in 1864 and at the age 16 began modeling Indian heads and in 1892 he sent 2 of them to the Salt Lake City Fiar and they were purchased and he was able to go to Boston to study with sculptor T. H. Bartlett and then on to Paris working with Chapu and Dampt. In 1909 his "Great Spirit" won a gold medal at the Paris Salon and returning to America he modled the guilded angel in the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple and the statue of Sir Isaac Newton in the rotunda of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as well as many other sculptures in museums and private collections around the world.
Summary by M. Kurtzworth, American Art Society
