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OM8 No, 1024-(XJ/8 NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) Utah WordPorfect Format United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number ~ Page ~ Oallin House. Springville. Utah County. UT first recollections were of inside a fort built by early citizens for protection against hostile Ute Indians. Both of' Dallin's parents were Mormon converts and emigrants although Dallin's family, while in the boy1s youth, eventually abandoned this faith and joined the Presbyterian church in the same community. Dallin was the second of nine children and the oldest living son of Thomas and Jane Hamer Dallin. Dallin was educated in a local Mormon school and later received more careful training at a mission school sponsored by the Presbyterians. Encouraged by his mother's early kindergarten-like training and with the support of his father, Dallin began drawing and making small sculptured figures of "toys, indians, and playmates" from clay found in exposed stream beds. At the age of twelve, his skills were publicly noted and displayed with those of a older local amateur artist. As a teenage miner working with his father in Utah's Tintic mining district, Oallin1s extraordinary artistic talents were noticed by a businessman and a mining company owner, the latter being originally from Boston. Impressed by the teenager's talent, the two men, with the financial aid of another wealthy mining official, arranged for travel and admission to the Boston sculpture school of Truman H. Bartlett in 1880 and initially sponsored Dallin1s education. Bartlett was, for his time, a noted sculptor, art academic and critic. Dallin1s education was intensive but sporadic and relatively brief due to lack of funds and because profitable work occasionally took precedent over formal training. His unceasing studio work and personal junkets throughout the Boston area also served him an education. In the late 1880s, Dallin lived in Paris, where he attended the Acagemie Julian. There he was the second Utah artist to study in Paris by three weeks. During the later years of the following decade, Dallin once more travelled to Paris. In 1899 he was accepted at the Ecole de Beaux Arts, the most highly extolled art school in the western world, but chose !o accept a lucrative commission instead of pursuing further formal education. In 1883, at the age of twenty-two, Dallin had entered an anonymous competition for an equestrian statue of Boston1s own Paul Revere, with the entries to be inspired by Henry Longfellow1s famous poem "Paul Revere's Ride." Eventually, Dallin won the competition although his youthfulness, western references, and unknown reputation were great obstacles. Later, because of the lack of donated funds, inconsistent public support and political wranglJng, Dallin would not see his Paul Revere statue completed and installed until 1940. The 1883 Boston competition established his career and its realization essentially signalled its closing as well -- he died in 1944, less than four years after the statue1s installation. Between the winning of the Boston competition and the statue1s eventual installation, Dallin became one of ~ See continuation sheet 7Swanson. 90. 8Francis. CyrUS E. Oallin. 1-30. Boallin's biographer indicated he revised his proposed Paul Revere seven times. Francis. " ••• Paul Revere." 1-36. and Francis. CyrUS E. Oallin. 240.