CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861-1944)
20.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1536291
Lot 14 | CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861-1944)
Estimate value
120000USD $ 120 000 – 180 000
Appeal to the Great Spirit
inscribed '© C.E. Dallin 1912.', stamped with foundry mark 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS GO QAPU' and inscribed '#4' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
40 in. (101.6 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1912; cast circa 1919.
Provenance
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island.
Bigelow Kinnard & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, by 1919.
Edwin Pabst, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Edwin Lemp, St. Louis, Missouri, by descent from the above.
Russell Emmenegger, St. Louis, Missouri, acquired from the above.
J.N. Bartfield Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1985.
Literature
International Studio, vol. XXXV, no. 137, July 1908, n.p., another example illustrated.
E.W. Pomeroy, "Cyrus E. Dallin and the North American Indian: Four Statues Which Express the Fate of a Dying Race," Arts and Decoration, February 1914, p. 153, another example illustrated.
P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1973, pp. 94, 98, 378, pl. 96, another example illustrated.
R.G. Francis, Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Done, Springville, Utah, 1976, pp. 33, 43, 44-50, 52, 161-62, another example illustrated.
D.B. Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, New York, 2004, p. 143, another example referenced.
G.T.M. Shackelford, E.B. Davis, Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 13, 15, illustrated.
T. Tolles, The American West in Bronze: 1850-1925, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 25-27, 152, 153, another example illustrated.
Exhibited
Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William I. Koch, February 11-May 19, 1996, pp. 142-43, no. 66, illustrated.
| Artist: | Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861 - 1944) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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