Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-06-04 | Page 8 | Statues That Have Helped to Make Dallin Famous

4 I Statues That Have Helped to Make Dallin Famous BY FIDELIA B HAMILTON HIS is to be a Boston letter from THIS somewhere near the Illinois drain drainage drainage age canal but since It bears the I Proper seal possibly you will not object to thIs mUd mild case of dislocation 1 tion Below you shall meet credentials strong trong enough to answer even the de demands demands mands of The Heralds society editor herself j By the wa way aid did you ever eer co consider sider What a seal sen might bf be Something like this I would 8 suggest e t tas as as aa sketch A L p 0 5 R o T TR t st stU T U UAti y rAH 1 1 TE TEI T OMe I am hot sure lure that her steal is like this but if not why hy not You observe she counts Utah as one of her foreign dependencies that is her Iter Independencies but she keeps her eye ee tai J her outpost and occasionally steals a star out of constellation It Is true old friend that she us has captured Pf e or of your prize children taking him nd md his into her encircling arms arms are notoriously critical as t to the quality or of blood they caress caressI I mean your our Dallin very baby no now only It years e rs to his credit carrying her imprimatur equally with t Gaudens and Daniel French He I a prot professor RS tr or of sculpture in her normal I art school has made studies for hoc hee Paul md John Hancock which i Ere accepted b by her corporate art committee The writer riter of this sketch was as privileged to be guest in his Ar Arlington lington Heights home partaking the gracious gradous ho hospitality which is specially r v gerve served for Utah tramps and goner gener furthered to a di disarming finish to t dir Ir palliD Dallis and the boys who ho are aret t topical twentieth century exemplars or of good living and high thinking If Michael Angelo Could be consulted he be would vo vow it to be a significant co coincidence 0 Incidence that the queen of that home realm sho ld be Vittoria Colonna and that her training and service should have bave been along the lines of study which her husband has worked out to such admirable conclusions With lib ral cral culture and characteristic unselfishness she has given ghen years of her life to of knowledge for the welfare of He tl e high 5 school hool and normal Institute of beloved native city She has more mort recently published Sketches of great painters with illustrations from the i mast r which has been adoptEd as a ok in Boston schools And this ibis i is her way of proving the parable of the of good seed eed which shall grow into the tree of knowledge while she Is Isi i guiding personally the nearer and dear deaF dearer deaFer er pupils whom has sent her in her own belo beloved ed home I must ask this sweet womans forgiveness for forthe forthe the seeming fleemin pre presumption of telling the Western Public about her life and work While offering the defense of the immortal im immortal mortal Bobble Bobbie Burns Old nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes Her prentice han ban shE tried on man manI I And then she made the lasses lIr Damn Dallin gave a fe few years to pro prof f fo lonal work in the Drexel institute of Philadelphia but again resumed his home me in Boston with the exception of three c years fan in which he made a second residence for further study and discipline discipline pline in the sanctum of and this timE he went not as a fraction but in completeness with Mrs Dallin and the sons sons there that he cre created created the statue of The Medicine Man Ian which won first honors at th the salon of 1899 and the medal of th the expoSition of 1940 1900 It was accorded a on most favorable and dramatic ic Uy appropriate halt half in ambush among the trees Of this great work I wiH x il tell you further His success was marked at the Co Columbian Columbian exposition o of 1898 1893 when he exhibited the equestrian statue Sig Signal Signal nal of Peace noW owned by the cit city of Chicago and the portrait bust or of Dr Hamilton now at St S1 Marks has pital Salt Lake works for which re he here re received the gold medal A similar was that of The Protest which he executed for the Louisiana Purchase exposition at St S1 Louis LouiE in 1961 but wrought out with more bold boldness boldness ness and force For this he received the praises of multitudes and again the highest coveted dOr dOrIlls Ills His Apollo and H are r fig figures ures of elassie form grace and dignity This artist appears to think that evel every man worthy worth the name should be beon beon on horseback The majority of his he heroes heroes roes are on horseback and ready for action If not alread already in flight and this observation comes with most fantastic pertinence when one looks upon his hisDon hisDon Don Quixote and thE undying Rosi nante Nast act and Cruikshank would despair of their fame if they Y could see this whimsical beast brast on dress parade bearing in rheumatic gloom thE world famous knight of the sorrowful fig figure figure ure H He sees no terrifying automobiles and keeps his courage up as bravely as his masters rather questionable pros prosperity prosperity will admit His head is archaic his ears are expressing a protest against the campaign upon windmills his tail is a and vanishing factor his bis problem is to car carry aloft thE most illustrious ol old hidalgo of an all romance the most sublimely ridiculous old wooer or of the matchless and undiscovered is covered Dulcinea del Toboso and i 1 the creator of this genial phantasm f Cr Cervantes yantes brain were to rest his lamel lath els upon this sing single Work the they surely could coul run no risk of capture ny another i r this hp he Would also get the calm of a concrete humorist t t i t tt t W a aff I ff I J 1 t Ii 1 c l lj lc j pj r rt t c sQ t I 2 t f fr I X f l i r j a s Sioux Chief The Protest Our beloved JUdge Goodwin Goodin was fond of writing about the bold and daring P for or gold who stormed the crags of majestic tic hills of the rewards which their fancy fane saw just over the range and there was a fascination in the pictures conjured b by his words word which made tragic the ever brooding chance ot of faIlure but the man whose fortunes I Iam Iam am trying to trace has writ his name far higher for he has told of tI th his historic historic man in enduring marble and shields of bronze His stylus lylus has lib ib liberated symbolic figures of beauty and majesty from the chaos of rock and molten Iron I He too took the crags abo above e the humble home or of childhood but h found God in the cloudy heights and absorbed that seventh sense which has guided him to masterful tion conveying with it the faith to achieve great results and difficult for or I the avera average man to understand Fancy Fany your Dallin having lived in Assyria with or in Egypt with Sesostris Or in Ephesus when the vogue ogue of Diana was vas running high or r at Athens where double act ing sculptors keep the market supplied with gods enough for their ir ignorant worship against which St SL Paul red He would have made them think that there was nothing to In heaven or earth that art cannot eX y 1 a S j t tf ty tr r t y u tea c c f y ax r i Yr w fi h r r L Don Quixote The Cavalryman C E Dallin press and created a marvelous sun sunrise I rise in B C We are UP glad they did not capture I him but that he was as reserved r rv d for our selves America Utah Boston and company We need to get bus busy and I learn that in him wp we have a modest and great man Already his works beJ be b nto follow him not as but butas bu buas t as victoriEs Many apostles of the holy church h thaw have left home and kindred to go g o Medicine Man among our Indian tribes with the proc proclamations of the gospel of the cruel fled fied savIor privIleged to lead them Into that great light which reveals Ute the and hopes of every son Mn or of mankind Pere Marquette is such eh ehan an one whose name has become illus 1116 rno s In America as is in Africa but Dalian bas caught the I rEd rascals S in their War paint and war bonnets with their inc incantations their protestations their defiance and andus given us imag images of 01 their repellent sav savagery v agery which will m for aU all the future increase In crease in historic and ethnologic v vt ue Th originals will disappear as a race from the face of nature but the for far I preferable copies Will remain rema l cherished cher cherished In the art M Ute the country The story o of Ul tit red race is bristling with ferocity ity anu amI yet et k pity in ifs ICs pathos forever fight fighting mg ing and falling back ck before the haughty haught robbers or of their natural rights Taking a nearer mew of the ments or of this young man I think his Ilia belief in the maxim often by y Dr or of Fort Douglas has t him steadily true toO to his ide ideals ls oL La bor is the best genius said that wise wille willeman wiseman man to his young friends who fretted at the length or of the road to s a and Dallin h has over newer permitted his conscious genius to perch over Oye hi his Continued on Page 4 STATUES THAT HAVE HELPED TO MAKE DALLIN FAMOUS Continued from 3 chamber door and croak like the ra raen ravon von en about the indifference ot of the pub lie He With him bim obstacles were things to be overcome rapids to be 1 aped rocks to be embro embraced ed In the struggle Parnassus to be gained Now the strife ie ia practically lb over and he Is In the upper regions 2 the theair theair air is pure and the prospect fair With Wilb K a more particular reference to The Medicine Man this must close This Is iA the work for which p per r rh h he cares most since it is a por portrayal tryal on a basis basi of the startling and sometimes terrible of the native tribes He has had the verdict of oC both artists and ethnologists o of the correct con conception conception or of the nature and office of this weird being as struck out by his chis chisel el It Is standing In Philadelphia s Fairmount park Its unveiling was an imposing ceremonial by the munIcipal munIcipality ity In the honors of which both the were ere Ut most distinguished participants Dr McAllister in presenting the statue to the city said My Iy task toda today Is a pleasant one on to tender to you ou Mr Mayor and the President of the Fair Fairmount Fairmount mount Park association this statue We have to do o dutY to ourselves and the eft city by doing d duty t to the at ar artists On occasions of this kind we are apt to forget the fine imagination the cunning hAnd band which has ha t created the thing of beauty balut forget the man who ho has bas made it ours I am glad that we have come coine to our ourselves ourselves selves and lid brought him here and that we are to have the pleasure of meet meeting meetIng ing him I saw it toda today for the first time uncovered standing on the broad broadsward sward award with iUt tho th trees behind and lOd the thc sky above it The Inclement weather drove the official ceremony and ho crowd indoors The plaster gives but buta a shadowy dea of the thc work but enough to enable us to ascribe to it the two to fundamental elements of true sculpture dignity and beauty I am glad that Mr Ir Dallin DaHin while not departing from the IndIan has given us the of his In Inthe Inthe the Man Ian I congratulate the eit city of Philadelphia in having within tier iier herders borde a work of art at once so beautiful so fun full of inter interest t to us and andor or of such lasting valuE Have you ever stopped to think of the tragedy of the red race the American of this grest continent A Ate Afew te few de decades and he will he no more moreen seen en I declare it a grat tribute to the race which hleb received us here to place here a statue so expressive of its history and character NOC Nets again this seminude priest as ashe ashe he sits his horse home and stretches his fateful hand band in imprecation upon the bad spirits of the earth and air Hi HIe dIstinctive emblems are th the horns horn more prominent than those with which A Angelo elo crowned his Moses but like them symbols of power All the morbid of the race of aboriginal nal as ins ic is incarnated In this prophet or of and serpents It is my duty to present to you OU on ont t 15 part or of the Fairmount Art a asso so nation elation this production of art It m Is worthy of the craft it is a tr treasure which wm will long Jong help to make muke the eIt city more beautiful more noble I IDELIA FIDELIA B HA HAMILTON