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Show 24 Utah Historical Quarterly a great thing for me, as I shall be the ollly American who will have a statue in Paris.47 Dallin's Lafayette was praised by the newspapers and by France's eminent sculptor of animals, Emmanuel Fremiet. For some unknown reason the statue was never erected in colossal (double life-size) proportions as planned. Ironically, Paul Bartlett, son of Dallin's contentious teacher, had his own equestrian statue of Lafayette placed in the courtyard of the Louvre as a gift from the American school children in 1908. Were it not for this later date, one could suspect that the Bartletts had again interfered with Dallin's success. 4 8 During his second year at Paris the young sculptor learned that Buffalo Bill and his company of Indians were performing in the city. Naturally, DaHin was drawn to their encampment where he made a small model of a mounted Indian. While engaged in this work, Cyrus became friends with the famous painter of animals, Rosa Bonheur. This . mannish-looking artist worked alongside Dallin making sketches of the colorful Indians and their ponies. From his small study of the Indian, DaHin reproduced a life-size equestrian statue titled Signal of Peace that brought him additional recognition when it won an award in the Paris · Salon of 1890.4 9 Pleased with his nev.r success, the maturing artist wrote to his fiancee: I have been awarded an "Honorable Mention" by the Salon of 1890. I wish you were here just at this moment, as I should feel entirely happy could you put your arms around me and say how happy it all made you feel. Well, I have worked hard for it, and I should have been frightfully disappointed had I not received it. I have one source of downright pleasure, and that comes from knowing that I have honestly earned my honors, as I did nothing in any way which approached wire pulling. I find over here it is the thing to do, but as I don't believe in it I would not lower myself to do it, consequently, I feel proud that my honor was honestly won. 'T As quoted in "A Utah Boy in Paris," Salt Lake Herald, May 28, 1889. 4' "Dallin's LaFayette-Burne Jones and the Parisians," microfilm roll 182, Archives of American Art; Dallin to his parents, July 26, 1889, in possession of William B. Patterson; Craven, Sculpture in America, pp. 430-31, 457 . •• V.C. Dallin, "The 'Great Spirit' and Cyrus Dallin," pp. 15-17; Downes, "Cyrus E. Dallin, Sculptor," pp. to-II. Signal of Peace, one of many Indian subjects sculpted by Dallin is in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Photograph by Harold Allen, courtesy of Thomas Leek. Dallin and His Paul Rev ... This has given me cor believe the same. I hope just what I am to expect stock "way up," and if th! will.~o THE Fo Dallin returned to An abroad had been recognizl committee to activ: ready to "come to term disappointment was y: . model of Revere I that the shop whe had died. The mode~ There is good reason ' "t-' Revere model changes suggested bears the date 1884 technique that the braced front UJ, ••" ' " .... |
