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Show :ah Historical Quarterly i'Vallin and His Paul Revere Statue Committee intended. Furthennore, I feel thl' honor and integrity of Boston and its Citizens are involwd too seriously not to pay attention to this appeal. ... To those citizens who are really desirous of helping and cannot give, I would suggest their writing to the Trustees of the George Robert White Fund (His Honor Frederick Mansfield, chairman) asking that a part of the Annual Income should be used for the memorial. The income of the White fund was given for the "Creation of works of utility and beauty for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of Boston." The use of the work "Creation" by the Donor is significant as had he intended only works of utility he never would have used this word. Whereas, had he intended some work of art this word only would have been used. Works of utility are made, constructed, or built; works of art are created.~o Ie funding of the Revere ;6 to succeed this time. He he advice Saint-Gaudens n expense he would make llf life-size) even though the public. The sculptor, lent of his seventh model :!ar old son, Lawrence. 67 clay, going up and down , working with feverish Kertion for a man in his as a mental and physical Dallin's Arlington studio, which was furnished, in :nts at the Massachusetts ith the huge clay model, .med about it so long that placed on exhibit at the e. DaHin prepared to take l to the citizens of Boston" 'eat Spirit in which he f the 1885 contract with :ient document has any e who should know that )bligation.... It was a ood faith and should be mity arrives. As I have ulfilled my part of the Boston to do their part atue into bronze as the ; Everett B. Mero, "Dedication in , .American City, November 1940, lam, Mass.; A.]. Philpott, "Model ,ston Globe, October 23, 1935. 18. 33 On March 6, 1936, the gray-bearded sculptor appeared before the Legislative Committee on State Affairs at a hearing at the statehouse and told how the provincial prejudices of Boston's elite citizens had robbed him of completing his Revere statue. A bilI was introduced to erect the bronze Revere statue on the capitol grounds for the suggested fee of $25,000 to $50,000. A.J. Philpott and other speakers, representing various community organizations, spoke in favor of the bill which also had the endorsement of Gov. James Curley. The governor believed, however, that the statue should be erected near the site of Revere's residence in the Italian colony in the North End.'l During 1936 the new Revere model received the approval of the Boston Art Commission, and the heroic-size equestrian statue was re. produced in plaster by the Caproni Galleries of Boston. This finn, ,;,.originaHy named P. P. Caproni and Brother, had produced most of .>Dallin's works of the past forty years in plaster. The statue was painted >, to simulate the patination of a finished bronze, and the completed ...(,:plaster equestrian was e~hibited at the company's showroom. 72 ...;;c- '~~1~ . VINDICATION COMES AT LAST In 1937 DaHin offered to sell the Revere to Arlington, Massachufor $10,000 less than what Boston would have to pay for it. Drawmgs were made to demonstrate how the statue would look if placed on ~tts, ,. Cyrus E. Dallin, "An Appeal to the Citizens of Boston," holograph, Dallin Collection. '.' "Teacher Was Jealous, Explains Cyrus DalIin," March 7, 1936. and "Says Hub's Elite st HIm Award," March 7, 1936, unidentified news clippings in Dallin Collection. ,. "Cyrus Dallin is Honored in Boston," Springville (Utah) Herald , April 29, 1937 ; ~. gall.i n to C.R. Harvey and Co. ; "It Speaks for Itself," April 1937, unidentified news clipping IJl alhn Collection; V.C . Dallin, "The Family of Cyrus E. Dallin," p. 62. Lo |
