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Show View of Sculpture Work in the Exhibit c12 Sculpture Work Takes "Prominent Place In UiThe Permanent Exhibit 3 r ' " '" - I r ' ! i fVi J . 'if - " f 1 j?f( -I if- r ---: v ' ? 1 I I ? . I . - " ',. "T . ' 7 ' "l is portrayed in the statue the "Appeal to the Great Spirit." Damn's apreciation and under- standing of the Indian is vividly portrayed in" the following incident: inci-dent: "A leathery-skinned, bow-legged man stood in front of the Boston scrutinizing the statue of an In-I In-I dian on 'horseback pouring forth his soul in prayer "The Appeal to the Great Spirit," the statue which, in point of familiarity to Americans, ranks second only to the statue of Liberty in New York harbor." "For five minutes the sombrero-topped sombrero-topped man stood motionless, wrapped in study. Then, walking with tliat gait acquired by men who spend much of their lives on the hurricane deck of a cow pony, he moved to the opposite side of the statue and studied it from this new angle. Another five minutes min-utes passed before 'he strolled into the museum and approached the woman at the souvenir counter. "'Ma'am,' he asked in a slow drawl, 'who made that statue -uk- fron 11. a. w- -.T - -- " 'The sculptor, Cyrus E. Dal-lin,' Dal-lin,' he was informed. " 'Dallin,' he repeated, as it trying in vain to place the name. 'Where from?' " 'He lives right here in Boston.' Bos-ton.' "The reply seemed to astonish the questioner. . " 'Boston!' he echoed softly. 'And make an Injun and pony like that?' "He bought a post card photograph photo-graph of the statue one of the many millions of pictures of the famous work that have been eagerly purchased by Americans and tapped it with his finger, 'and observed: 'Reckon I've knowed 'most as many Injuns as Whites. Next time you see this hombrc Dallin, tell him for me that he sure docs know what he's talkin' about.' , . By MAE HUNTIXGTON It is an interesting and sig-, sig-, nificant fact that the art impetus, im-petus, which prompted John Haf-en Haf-en to present his painting, "The Mountain Stream" to the Spring-Ift Spring-Ift ville high school, should about the sw same time reach across the miles and touch the heart of another Utah son, Cyrus E. Dallin, and .induce him to send to his native iGJtown its first acquisition in sculpture, the replica of Paul Re-i Re-i vere. A brief announcement of the exercises acknowledging the receipt re-ceipt of this gift has recently come into the hands' of the Art - Committee. It states that the Of "unveiling of the statuette 'Paul "'Revere' presented by C. E. Dallin Dal-lin to Springville public schools Kwill be held Friday, February 27, , 1903, at 8 o'clock p. m. at the ir1 Central school building." Signed J by L. E. Eggertsen, superin-tendent superin-tendent of schools, and Ida Alle-j Alle-j man, Nellie Reynolds and Berth-I Berth-I ena Childs, art committee. 2 This first contribution has been added to from time to time, most- "Br,Ut.bj'-.t',iVin. unt" t,.le. gal-. s3aiery is"' now the "proud possessor of six of his works: "Appeal to ,-the Great Spirit," bust of Cyrus Jlj K. Dallin; Paul Revere, ' Emme-line Emme-line B. Wells, A Boy, and "The Vision," ' Dallin considers "Paul Revere" one of his most distinctive f achievements. . In 1884, sffortly after Dallin had gone to Boston, the Massachusetts legislature offered of-fered a prize of $25,000 for the best conception of the hero, Paul Revere, the statue to be erected for the Massachusetts state house V grounds. Dallin says: "I had just s 3ome from Utah, a mere boy of 22 ind had entered the competition for the modeling of the statue. 1 "I won it in competition with the foremost sculptors of the j country. The city had agreed to f sponsor a movement for the rais-' ing of a fund. But a jealous competitor com-petitor by arousing public an-:agonism an-:agonism against meby calling ittcntion to the fact that I came 'rom the 'Godless City of Salt jake,' was successful in thwart- To Be Seen In Current Exhibit ' ' v " ' a , , . ' 1 " 'M ii r i ' : - M v ' ' 1 i jr. ' -w-, f , f s 1 L v. ' r ' t - $ i ' ' "",. ,."- . i I h , - - v i t . i I PjfC ' Top Left- f ' STILL LIFE 'l " ' - Nell Walker Warner K&wSj Los Angeles, Calif. v, w ! OLD CARLO lt " v f f Feia, Webber Shear ft'V : Berkeley, Calif. l ? fC' AL Lelt fiVr 1' OCTOI5EU ZJ :1 Viy7x E W. RcdiicUl 4lxZl'' ?JLtf &b Stockton, N. J. "Mr. Dallin chuckled when the story was repeated to him in 'his roomy studio on a Boston hilltop. hill-top. " 'I couldn't very well help knowing the Indians,' he said, 'toing brought up in Utah in the days when Utah was 'Indian country'." This statue has been spoken of by critics as "the greatest in Dal-Iin's Dal-Iin's scries of Indian sculptures." It is a large figure of heroic size, located in the center of the green in front of the Art Museum, Boston. Bos-ton. There sits the Indian, with outstretched out-stretched arms and upturned face, appealing to the Great Spirit to save a vanishing race. It is interesting inter-esting to note in all of Dallin's equestrian figures how the temperament tem-perament of the horse corresponds with that of his rider. In. this piece, the horse's ears droop to the sides, showing that he, too, has found the world hard and is discouraged. This statue was given giv-en a gold medal at the Paris salon in 1909. "The Visicn" The senior class of 1929 presented pre-sented this bust to the gallery. The theme is diaries A. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, head raised, eyes lighted with enthusiasm for the vision that he sees, every muscle and nerve alert and toned for the great undertaking that lies ahead of him, the spanning or the vast wilderness of waters. He seems to see beyond the accomplishment accomplish-ment itself, and to catch a fleeting fleet-ing glimpse of that brotherhood of nations which should come as a result of the eradication of space, effected by the achievements achieve-ments of such daring birdmen as he. It is the face of a man who listens, and who listens to an inner voice. "The Buffalo" Bv ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON Last year during the April exhibit ex-hibit this choice statue in bronze was presented by the sculptress, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her story is an interesting one. Great talents may sometimes be revealed in babyhood, but families fam-ilies may have no way of recognizing recog-nizing them. So it was when little lit-tle Anna Hyatt, still a toddler, ng it, and the competition was Jropped." Fifty years passed and Dallin tried to forget what he himself characterized as "a major disappointment disap-pointment of his life." He became be-came famous for his Indian and equestrian subjects, for his "Appeal "Ap-peal to the Great Spirit," in Bos-;on; Bos-;on; 'his "Massasoit" in Plymouth; 'The Scout" in Kansas City; 'The Signal of peace" in Chi-;ago; Chi-;ago; and 'The Medicine Man" it Philadelphia. Then after fifty fears, art critics began again to lrge the construction of a statue lonoring Paul Revere. A. J. Phil- jot, art critic of the Boston Globe rind president of the Boston Art :lub, declared: "The name of 'aul Revere is known from one Hf 'nd of the country to the other, k nit here in the city where he be-IVU? be-IVU? ran his famous ride there is no tatue to commemorate his mem-iry. mem-iry. If there 'is any patriot who 1fl hould he honored, it is he." As a result of this agitation, he competition was reopened in 936, the assignment awarded to -fr. Dallin, and in April of 1937. . simple but impressive cere-nony cere-nony marked the unveiling of a ife-size clay model of the early ; olonial hero, designed by the culptor in his youth, but accept-d accept-d only after half a century of ontroveray. Gov. Charles F. Hur- i ey, speaking at the unveiling ex-rcises ex-rcises in the Charles river es-ilanade, es-ilanade, termed the cermony a i vindication" of Dallin. 1 Dallin in response referred to he statue as his "Swan Song." I More than half a century ago," ,c said, "I began this, my best ork. I wTTl say nothing further. '11 let my work speak for itself." 3 Tfie statue, which has since een cast in bronze shows the Massachusetts patriot astride the teed on which he spread the alarm ' Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm." . "Appeal to the Great Spirit." Quite another type of American was continually escaping to the stable to lie under the feet of the family horse in order, as she tried to explain, that she migit watch his jaws work. Certainly her anxious mother and nurse could not have known that the little runaway would one day model one of the greatest equestrian eques-trian statues of the world. "This work is a portrayal of Joan of Arc and stands on Riverside River-side drive and 93d street. New York City, the only statue of the French heroine ever executed by a woman. In recognition of the excellence ex-cellence of the work. France made Miss Hyatt a Chevaliere of the Legion of Honor, and replicas of the statue have been placed in Gloucester, Mass., and in Bois, France, where in 1429 the Maid achieved her purpose. From her earliest art-student days in Boston, Anna Hyatt has been fascinated with the modeling model-ing of animals. The Bostock snows with all their jungle life from time to time visited Boston for long periods. Anna was a constant, visitor, and here she modeled from life, doing a great deal of her work independent of instruction H.er wild- animal bronzes began to be known and commented favorably upon by critics. The sinuous, treacherous movements of the jaguar, the flashing quickness of the tiger, the splendid strength of 'the buf falo, the faithfulness and nobility of the dog all engaged her attention, atten-tion, and have all been modeled by her again and again. She is known as the only woman sculptor sculp-tor to concentrate attention on wild beasts. Both France and Spain, as well as America have clone honor to Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum Mu-seum in New York. She is a member of the American National Nation-al Academy, the National Sculpture Sculp-ture society, and the Federation of Arts. For some years she has been curator of sculpture in the (Continued on Page Three) " SCULPTURE t WORK IN THE EXHIBIT (. ( V (; (Continued from P;'tre 1) French Museum in New York ice City. A; liust of John Ifufrn U H.V .1. KKO I AllIIIAMiS I ! Much f the success of the Springville gallery is due to the h. : generous aid and hearty cooper-nr;. cooper-nr;. a lion of Utah artists and sculp-iv sculp-iv tors. In if07, at the first un-,ir; un-,ir; veiling exercises held in the town, (. when sixteen paintings by Utah's J" most prominent artists were pre-ly pre-ly sentcd. the bust of John Ha fen was added to the collection, the gilt of the .sculptor, J. Leo Fair-nj Fair-nj banks. Mr. Fairbanks was for many years closely associated with John Hafen and there was between them a bond of deep affection. It was, no doubt, this close association and understanding understand-ing that enabled the sculptor to render so sympathetically this image of his friend. J. Leo Fairbanks Fair-banks t3gan sculptoring as a very young man and later studied at the Julian in Paris. While there he won second honorable mention men-tion in both sculpture and painting. paint-ing. For a number of years he was art supervisor in the Salt Lake City schools and is now art director at Corvallis. While thus employed he has studied continually contin-ually at home and abroad, In j Pairs, at Columbia, and other American universities in New York and Chicago. Speaking of his life's work he says: "My father's attitude, his willingness to sacrifice every-L'hing every-L'hing to his art, has been an inspiration to me and I firmly believe has changed my whole career. Without his. example I would undoubtedly have followed more lucrative employment. I am glad of the life I have chosen and for the opportunity I 'have of working out some of my ideals. Nothing is more delight- : ful than creating lovely things and helping others to appreciate the beautiful." In addition to this statue, the gallery Tias two of Mr. Fairbanks' paintings; "The First. Snow," and "The Harvest." The Buffalo By AVAKIJ FA IK BANKS Another early gift to the gallery gal-lery was "The Buffalo" by Avard Fairbanks, the youngest Fairbanks Fair-banks brother. He was born in Salt Lake City in 1S97, and as a very young child displayed aptitude apt-itude for sculpture in his father's fath-er's and brother's studio. At the age of 13 his father took him to New York, where he attended school and sketched from the animals an-imals at the Bronx park. Like Anna Hyatt Huntington, the boy came in contact with the noblest specimens of wild animals at an age when he was most impressionable impres-sionable to their power and activity ac-tivity and he was deeply impressed. im-pressed. Before he was 14 years old he had exhibited in the National Na-tional Academy at New York and at an exhibition in Buffalo, and had been written of in the International Studio. He has the distinction of being the youngest artist ever to exhibit in the French salon, a work executed in his fifteenth year. j |