CYRUS

See also:

• EDWIN, AEDUINI
• EDWIN, JOHN (1749–1790)

EDWIN

See also:

• CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861— )

DALLIN (1861— )  , American sculptor, was born at Springville, Utah, on the 22nd of November 1861 . He was a pupil of Truman H . Bartlett in Boston, of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, the Academie Julien and the sculptors Henri M . Chapu and Jean Dampt (born 1858), in Paris, and on his return to America became instructor in modelling in the state normal art school in Boston . He is best known for his plastic representations of the North American Indian—especially for " The Signal of Peace " in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and " The Medicine Man," in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia . As a boy he had lived among the Indians in the Far West, and had learned their language . His later works include " Pioneer Monument," Salt Lake City; " Sir Isaac Newton," Congressional Library, Washington; and " Don Quixote." He won a silver medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900, and a gold medal at the St Louis Exposition, 1904 .