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Show ARTIST PRAISES DALLIN IN SPECIAL LETTER In a clipping taken from the Boston Herald, dated January 10, 1940, we find the following letter written to the editor of the Herald Her-ald by J. Elliot Enneking, an artist art-ist who exhibits in the Springville art exhibit, and who signed his name in the letter as "Paintbrush." "Paint-brush." The letter concerns the awarding award-ing of a contract for the erection of Cyrus E. Dallin's Paul Revere statue on approximately the place where the famous ride begins. "To the Editor of the Herald: "This morning's Herald brought us the joyous news that our friend Cyrus Dallin (the dean of Boston sculptors) had at last won his strenuous fight over a period of 55 years to execute the statue of Paul Revere. "It seemed to be a case of 'ride 'em cowboy,' which brought Dallin under the wire a winner. Paul's ride may have been shorter to the road of fame, as he rode through every Middlesex village and farm to awaken "the people that the British were coming. It has taken 55 years for our Boston sculptor to place Paul Revere on his horse (where tt should have been in 1885) on a pedestal near his home In the north end of Boston. "It seems to us rather childish child-ish for a rival sculptor to be so unkind as to say that Dallin's model depicted "an impossible man on an impossible horse.' We are fortunate that Mr. Dallin 'pulled up stakes' at an early age, leaving his birthplace in Springville, Spring-ville, Utah, and settling in Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, where he has become a factor in American sculpture, being loved by artists and laymen as well. "To our way of thinking, the statue of Paul Revere should be placed, as originally intended, in Copley Square, but we hope that if there is any controversy over its last resting place, it won't take 55 more years to make a decision. Rather than have this happen, we say 'godspeed' to the one designated! desig-nated! "Much credit is due our mayor of Boston, and the White trustees for voting in favor of this worthwhile worth-while statue. 'Long live our brother sculptor!' " PAINTBRUSH t |