Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861-1944), No To War! (Indian)

1887, heavy cast patinated bronze, signed and dated "C. E. Dallin 87" to the terrace edge. A similar casting is in the collection of the Springville Museum of Art, Utah, accession no. 1997.002.

38 1/4 x 15 x 11 in.

An early model for this sculpture, alternatively titled "Indian", is illustrated on page 24 (figure 20) of the text Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Doneby Rell G. Francis.

Cyrus Dallin was born in Springville, Utah, in 1861. His talent as a sculptor in his youth eventually lead to friends raising money to send him to Boston in 1880 to train with the sculptor Truman A. Bartlett. He traveled to Paris in 1887 and studied at the Academie Julian as well as the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Successful in his studies in Paris, he was accepted into the Paris Salon where he won an honorable mention. He returned to America in 1890 and moved to Massachusetts. By 1900, Dallin was a teacher at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School, and the recipient of a contract for a monumental statue of Paul Revere to be placed in downtown Boston. The Paul Revere statue, as well as those of Jane Dallin (1904), Scout (1910), and Appeal to the Great Spirit (life size at the Museum of Fine arts, Boston, 1912), are typical Dallin works of generalized dignity.

He received a master's degree from Tufts College, and in 1936 Boston University bestowed an honorary doctorate upon the "Old American Master." Among his many awards are a gold medal from the American Art association of New York in 1888, a first class medal in 1893 from the Chicago Exposition, and a gold medal in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition. In 1909, he received a gold medal from the Paris Salon, an honor which had then been conferred on only six American sculptors.

Biographical information courtesy of the Springville Museum of Art

Overall good estate condition; some light areas of rubbing to the patina, and a few darkened areas of the patina on the base posterior edge.