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ah Historical Quarterly yet another model. "Why Iptor. "A fellow sculptor I, a new stimulus following B. Hall. Among his model of lost while he was in ,rn'TPr.'rI photograph, the was trying to outdo duplicate the action of Dallin had not improved Powers, official photog- (Worcester, Mass. ), January 3, and final Revere model a photograph of the Dallin's favorite, was . Photograph courtesy of the Robbins Library. Dallin and His Paul Revere Statue 31 During these years he made other models of Paul Revere, none of which seemed to equal those first models made in youth. These first models were full of the fire of colonial patriotism and of action born of an urgent necessity. The later models plainly show the influence of unfair criticism, a thing which always tends to thwart the inspiration of any artist.~2 Dallin's close friends also encouraged the aging sculptor to renewed activity. Daniel Chester French, always the gentleman and advocate of fair play, entreated Boston to fulfill its long debt to Dallin. Before his death in 1931, French wrote one of his last letters to Mayor James M. Curley urging that Dallin's statue be erected. 63 Concurrent with Dallin's work on the seventh model, A.]. Philpott, dean of the Boston art critics, started a campaign in 1933 to arouse concern for Dallin's cause. Philpott reviewed the tragic events in Dallin's fifty-year struggle to get Boston to accept the Revere statue. He noted that a "new committee had been formed to see that justice is done both Paul Revere and Cyrus E. Dallin." Other writers who shared Philpott's sentiments recommended that the year 1935 would be an appropriate time to unveil the monument as it would be the two-hundredth anniversary ·of Revere's birth. 64 With the statuette completed and encouraged by the support from the newspapers, Dallin sought financial aid from the mayor of Boston and the other trustees of the George Robert White Fund. This charitable trust fund was established in 1922 by a gift of $5,000,000 to Boston City under a provision in White's will that stipulated that the income from the fund was "to be used for creating works of public utility and beauty, for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the City of Boston." 65 Before the trustees of the White Fund could act on DaHin's request, a meeting was held in January 1935 at the Old North Church by Mayor Frederick Mansfield who reviewed the story of the Revere statue and promised that it would be erected. The mayor suggested that the statue be placed in the nearby Paul Revere Mall, a man-made park that had been recently constructed through financial aid from the White Fund. Shortly after this meeting, the trustees of the White Fund interpreted . a Stillman Powers, "Cyrus Edwin Dallin, M .A., A.N.A., Sculptor (1861-1944) ," typeICnpt, Hafen-Dallin Club. a Philpott, "Dallin Has Waited 50 Years," .. Ibid.; "Bicentennial of Birth of Paul Revere Recalls Competition for Equestrian Statue at Boston," Federal Architect, January 1934, p. 17. A . .. V.C. Dallin, "The Family of Cyrus E. Dallin," p. 59; Will of George Robert White, rtlc1e Fourteenth, typed copy in Dallin Collection.