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Show Utah Historical Quarterl}' and His Paul Rev, the restrictions of the will as not permitting the funding of the Revere statue. Dallin's request would have to be denied. 66 But the aging artist remained determined to succeed this time. He decided, as one last effort, to put into effect the advice Saint-Gaudens had offered nearly a half century ago. At his own expense he would make the statue in heroic dimensions (one and a half life-size) even though there was no promise of financial support from the public. The sculptor, now stooped with age, completed the enlargement of his seventh model in four months, with the aid of his thirty-year old son, Lawrence. 67 Vittoria Dallin described her husband's efforts: Committee intended. Furll and its Citizens are invoJ appeal. ... To those citizens who an would suggest their writin Fund (His Honor Frederi the Annual Income should The income of the White utility and beauty for tl Boston." The use of the 1 had he intended only worl Whereas, had he intendec heen used. Works of utilit created. 70 32 For months he toiled, handling great quantities of clay, going up and down a ladder day after day, from morning till night, working with feverish intensity. The cost of such mental and physical exertion for a man in his late seventies was tremendous, and Cyrus Dallin was a mental and physical wreck after the huge model was completed.68 The ten-and-one-half-foot statue, made in Dallin's Arlington studio, required three tons of modeling clay, some of which was furnished, in an emergency, by the sculptor's devoted students at the Massachusetts School of Art. Summing up his experience with the huge clay model, Dallin said: "I have thought about it and dreamed about it so long that I decided to get it off my chest before I died." 69 The full-size clay model of Revere was placed on exhibit at the Boston Historical Society at the Old State House. Dallin prepared to take his fight to the public. He addressed "an appeal to the citizens of Boston" from the creator of the Appeal to the Great Spirit in which he described the events that led to the signing of the 1885 contract with Mayor Hugh O'Brien. His letter said in part: Whether after a lapse of half a century this ancient document has any legal value I know not, but I am assured by those who should know that in the minds of just men it represents a moral obligation .... It was a compact made by the committee and myself in good faith and should be carried out in good faith whenever the opportunity arrives. As I have recently finished the full size model, I have fulfilled my part of the compact, and I now call upon the Citizens of Boston to do their part by subscribing the necessary funds to put the statue into bronze as the .. V.C. Dallin, "The Family of Cyrus E. Dallin," p. 60; Everett B. Mero, "Dedication in Boston of a Bronze Statue and Tablets in Paul Revere Mall," American Cit)', November 1940, p.46. eT Interview with Lawrence Dallin, July 14, 1972, Chatham, Mass.; A.J. Philpott, "Model for Heroic Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere Completed," Boston Globe, October 23, 1935. •• V.C. DalIin, "The 'Great Spirit' and Cyrus Dallin," p. 18. o. Philpott, "Model for Heroic Equestrian Statue." Committee on how the provine him of completing ~.= the bronze Revere st. $25,000 to $50,000. j community organi2 endorsement of Go' that the statue should . Italian colony in the l' 1936 the new Commission, a in plaster by d named P. P. C. works of the past f O>llJ.JW.<1te the patinatior equestrian was exhib ...' -~a'I"ll!i ' VINOH 1937 Dallin offeree for $10,000 less than ' made to demons1 Cyrus E. DalIin, "An Appe "Teacher Was Jealous Exp Award," March 7,1936, UI Dallin is Honored Harvey and Co.; • --"~~'"un; V.C. Dallin, "TI |
