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CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYRUS See also:EDWIN See also:DALLIN (1861— )  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at Springville, See also:Utah, on the 22nd of See also:November 1861 . He was a See also:pupil of Truman H . See also:Bartlett in See also:Boston, of the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, the Academie See also:Julien and the sculptors See also:Henri M . See also:Chapu and See also:Jean Dampt (born 1858), in See also:Paris, and on his return to See also:America became instructor in modelling in the See also:state normal See also:art school in Boston . He is best known for his plastic representations of the See also:North American See also:Indian—especially for " The See also:Signal of See also:Peace " in See also:Lincoln See also:Park, See also:Chicago, and " The See also:Medicine See also:Man," in Fairmount Park, See also:Philadelphia . As a boy he had lived among the See also:Indians in the Far See also:West, and had learned their See also:language . His later See also:works include " See also:Pioneer See also:Monument," See also:Salt See also:Lake See also:City; " See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton," Congressional Library, See also:Washington; and " See also:Don Quixote." He won a See also:silver See also:medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900, and a See also:gold medal at the St See also:Louis Exposition, 1904 .

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