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Show presence, and know 4hat jokes will be appreciated ap-preciated and American huroof taken at pan Unassuming, asy and natural as his manners are,'every one feel after a brief acquaintance tttat hero U a man whom it Is (rood to know, a cosmopolitan who Ms improved his opportunities, whom travel and culture hare in no wise spoiled. , This is not the place to critical) j estimate his position aud powers as ad artist, the object of this SCULPTOR DAMN. A Utah Boy Who Is Known All Over tho World. BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, CAREER CA-REER AND ACHIEVEMENTS. f Prize-Crowned In Cotnrtetltions With Native and Vortiign (teitioi. - -----1 "Despair," m 'wsnpaaioa Flee mt "Spring," Is the Artist's Latest Trinm ph "Paul Re vere"'-'' A Sioux Chief" "Brigham Vonag" Some-thin Some-thin About DaUln' Personal Oeaiatity. Atnonff the Men ot whom Utah is proud, nd with reason, Mr. C. E. Dallin, the sculptor, sculp-tor, stands in the ffont rank. . Jf a was born - In. Springville, this territory", Jfovmher 23, j 1801, and has VOtf a deserved reputation dot often equalled by one of his years. Of all types of genius, the artistic faculty pet baps wes ldast 16 training &fid iSoSt td nature. It is a double gift, including not only the deft hand that acquires the knack, the incommunicable in-communicable skill to Shape and perfect-i Work, but that rarest and altogether unattainable unat-tainable endowment, the faculty of invention. inven-tion. Whoever looks upon Mr. Dallin' s latest lat-est work, a small statue representing Da' pair, if capable of appreciating a work of irt at all, lsfllled at One with the wondering good, to show so much of the artist, that it was - determined to end bim East to study, in Boston he placed himself under the in-IrUctior in-IrUctior of Mr. T. II. Barlef t, the sculptor, with whom he remained a year and a half, working during" the day to support himself and doing hi modeling chiefly at night. In 133 he submitted a design de-sign for a proposed equestrian statue of Paul Revere for the city of Boston, and was awarded one of the three prizea given in the competitor; A seeead competition ia 1&85 resulted in HIS DESIGN BEIXG ACCEPTED lot the proposed statue. A contract Was made between the young artist and the eoni' mittee having the matter in charge, but it has not yet been fulfilled, the delay being in some way the fault or the inability of the committees. Meanwhile the model attract attention and admiration wherever it ia shown, and our cut, made from a photograph, photo-graph, will give some idea of what a spirited piece of work it is. All artists have need of long patience, and at last th day will eom when Copley Square ia Boston Will, ba adorned with this early effort of the Utah , boy, who probably has not yet produced ale "masterpiece. In the exposition of the Art Society of New York his first life-size statue. "An Indian Hiirtcf," was awarded a geld medal. Ia 1M he went to Pari, where he re mainod some years, studying in the Eeold des Beaux Aft and also tinder the iastructloa of M. Henri Chapu. During the first year he exhibited at the Paris exposition a bPonAA design for a statue of Lafayetto. During the second year he mad his first exhibit at the aloft, a llfe-sixe equestrian statue of a Sioux chief, ana was accorded honorable mention. His model for this work was one of tho Indians in the great show of the Hon. William Cody, as they call him in England, better known here as "Buffalo Bill." The horse, as Our illustration will show, is a very different creature from that which bears Paul Revore, whether we are to attribute the i difference to the improvement of, horseflesh ' f)SPAtR. Sketch being only td Briefly record his carter and to say that as loyal eltlsen of Utah we are proud of him, and that we believe In bim and predict for him brilliant future. We close by quoting the final sentence of aa article la the January number of an art publication of New York: "When artists At the calibre of Mr. C. E. Dallia ere coming to the front, America has no cause to fear her future fame as an artistic aetien." ClLLlX AT WORK. question, How did h com to think of it? It 1 like nothing else that has eter been made. For thftdsands of years artist have been at work representing every shade of human emotion, but . here Is a gesture untried before, a form of beauty worthy to be compared with the best and speaking the word despair as plainly as it ever was spoken in the world of art. Delsarte had much to ay about the language of the human hand, how it can invite or banish, forbid or im-Vtlor, im-Vtlor, a language universally understood and immediately felt, and artists have always made use of this language id posing thir f5gures to represent thought and feeling. Go and see Mr. Dallin's statue of "Despair" and read f ft MniSTXfl OF tflAT tPSTRETCBED HAJft). By the Way, the statue of President Brlg-nam Brlg-nam Young has been recently altered and greatly improved in this matter of the expression ex-pression of the outstretched hand. As at first made the expression was harsh; it was 'Go!" or, '"Do this!" but how it means equally, Come!" "Welcome." or "Listen 1 in the last hundred years or to the artist' realistic conception of an Indian pony. In the winter of 1890 he modeled itt Ros-toa Ros-toa th statue, "The A wc.kenlog of Bpring." with which our citizens ar familiar by means of photographs. Th statu wa exhibited ex-hibited In New York by th Society of American Artists in May, 1891. During his stay in Boston, he modeled bush ot Jetaea Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others. About a year ago Mr. Dallin RKTCRKfcU to BIS Jf ATIVg TtftfttTOftT, bringing with him a wife, a fiostoh lady, now well known in fait Lake society. Con. cerning his work here not much need be laid, as every one ia faaillsf with the golden Moroni of the tern bie tpirs and th busts of Presidents Woodruff and Cannon, Joseph Smith and th proposed monument and statue in honor of President Brighsm Younf. Tholi who were familiar with President Young during his life prondunce the like-ness like-ness to be exact, and all must admit that the statue is a noble and a commanding figure. 0 ntx fetrEi.fi. to ae!" Th improvement is feted by turning the palm of the band Slightly np. ward and opening and curving th fingers fin-gers iu a little different way and by slightly relaxing th position of the arm. To ae that such allglit differences in position mean so much in expression requires re-quires only artistic feeing, but to invent th pose that will represent your thought is the touch of genins that make the true artist, and to catch such Imagined gesture or attitude atti-tude and fix it in enduring material that is the artist" faculty. Mr. Dallin' artistic tendency showed it-Self it-Self and attracted attention when be was but 6 yeara old, In some studies ia clay mad at that early age. At til hgb of lft tie had feasdeled some head that were seen to be so The artist U just now engaged fat puttta the finishing touches to th great elay Mod! for this statu, showa in our eat from a photograph. Tkis model is of heroic siie, being as much aa tea feet ia height, a such sum must N to appear well in an elevated position. Mr. Dallin' studio, or rather workshop, is at the corner of Third South aud West Te pie streets, and it will well repay the visitor to go and see this great clay model aud th plaster ''Despair," of which We have poka at the beginning of this sketch. ' a oxvri.fcaiAjr axd raisND J Mr. pallia, i companionable aud interesting. interest-ing. Enough of the Utah boy remain in j him to make every one feel at ease is kia v , ' : ; Y . |