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Show Dallin and His Paul Revere Statue 39 Revolutionary hero, unveiled the bronze statue as several thousand people cheered its creator, · Cyrus E. Dallin. The Boston Post reported the sculptor's reaction: Cyrus DalIin said nothing. He bowed when he was introduced, but that was all. Watching him, spectators got the impression that his heart and mind were too filled with emotion to pennit him to do anything but sit quietly in the sun while the orators praised the name of Paul Revere and the deeds of the early patriots."s Justice had finally come to Cyrus Dallin and Paul Revere. The work of fifty-seven years had reached fruition. Every obstacle had been removed, and Cyrus Edwin Dallin realized the crowning achievement of his eventful life. EPILOGUE Cyrus E. Dallin's heroic)od on a polished Milford ul Revere Mall adjoining measured twenty-one feet t, and the bronze weighed J. Lovell Little, a descennd A. Porter, a colleague . . The monument was surby the White Fund com~an with the presentation Mayor Maurice]. Tobin, his address Mayor Tobin :s a great wrong." 85 Paul ~eat-great-grandson of the September 21, 1940, and "Man nber 16, 1940, unidentified news tor: A Collection of Photographs lchusetts School of Art Alumni in the Dallin Collection. Cyrus Edwin DalEn was a man of faith and sentiment. Before his death in 1944, he returned once more to his birthplace in the West. The sight of the Rocky Mountains always affected him deeply, for he believed that the lowlands and the prairies produced the painters, but it was the mountains that produced the sculptors. "I was born in the West in the mountains," he said, "but never in my life have 1 been able to return to them without breaking down and weeping."8. Boston's "Cyrus the Great" had gained international honors and fame, but his heart remained in Springville with the mountains and the mother he adored. .. "DaJlin Honored at Dedication Ceremony," Springville Herald October 24, 1940, reprinted from Boston Post, September 23, 1940. • 7 George H. Brimhall, "The Influences of Natural Environment," Improvement ETa 24 (1920-21): 148 . In 1884 Dallin painted the Springville log cabin in which he was born . . Photograph courtesy of the Hafen-Dallin Club. |
