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Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for Native Americans subjects. He created more than 260 works, including the equestrian statue of Paul Revere in Boston, Massachusetts; the Angel Moroni atop Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah; and his most famous work, Appeal to the Great Spirit, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also an Olympic archer. ==Biography== Dallin, the son of Thomas and Jane (Hamer) Dallin, was born in Springville, Utah Territory, to a family then belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). At age 19, he moved to Boston to study sculpture with Truman Howe Bartlett. He studied in Paris, with Henri Chapu and at the Académie Julian. In 1883, he entered the competition for an equestrian statue of Paul Revere for Boston, Massachusetts. He won the competition and received a contract, but four versions of his model were rejected. The fifth version was accepted in 1899, but fundraising problems delayed the project for decades. The full-size statue was unveiled in 1940. Dallin converted to Unitarianism, and initially turned down the offer to sculpt the angel Moroni for the spire of the LDS Church's Salt Lake Temple. He later accepted the commission and, after finishing the statue said, "My angel Moroni brought me nearer to God than anything I ever did."〔Levi Edgar Young, “The Angel Moroni and Cyrus Dallin,” ''Improvement Era'', April 1953, p. 234.〕 〔("Sculptor’s Works Top Temple Towers Worldwide" ), ''Ensign'', April 2006.〕 His statue became a symbol for the LDS Church and was the model for other angel Moroni statues on the spires of LDS Church temples. In Boston, Dallin became a colleague of Augustus St. Gaudens and a close friend of John Singer Sargent. He married Vittoria Colonna Murray in 1891, and returned to Utah to work on ''The Angel Moroni'' (1893). He taught for a year at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while completing his ''Sir Isaac Newton'' (1895) for the Library of Congress. In 1897, he traveled to Paris, and studied with Jean Dampt. He entered a ''Don Quixote'' statuette in the Salon of 1897, and ''Medicine Man'' in the Salon of 1899 and the Exposition Universelle (1900).〔 The couple moved to Arlington, Massachusetts in 1900, where they lived for the rest of their lives and raised three sons. From 1899 to 1941, he was a member of the faculty of Massachusetts Normal Art School (now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design). In 1912, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1930. At the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, Dallin competed in archery, winning the bronze medal in the team competition.〔(Cyrus Dallin Olympic medals and stats ) at www.databaseolympics.com〕 He finished ninth in the Double American round and 12th in the Double York round. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cyrus Edwin Dallin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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