• Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
  • Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"
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Rare Cyrus Dallin 1920 Bronze Casting of "Massasoit"

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Item Details

A rare 1920 bronze casting of Cyrus Dallin’s (American. 1861–1944) Massasoit. This bronze statue depicts the great leader of the Wampanoag tribe, Massasoit who greeted the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. This proud figure wears a loin cloth and moccasins while carrying a peace pipe, satchel, and wearing a tall feather in his hair. Fine sculpture is marked to the base, ‘Dallin’ with a copyright symbol and ‘Massasoit’. The iconic, large scale versions of this statue remain steadfast at Plymouth Rock and at Brigham Young University.

Cyrus Dallin was born in 1861 in the Utah Territory. The artist, best known for his Native American subjects, eventually moved to Boston and studied sculpture in the tile studio of Truman Howe Bartlett. Dallin in pursuit of a continental eduction, travelled to Paris where he studied with the famed Henri Chapu and at the Académie Julian. During his time in Paris Dallin spent viewed Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show many times, which came to Paris in 1889. He sketched the many costumes of Native American participants and sketched their portraits. Dallin returned to America where he entered and won a contest in 1883 for an equestrian statue of Paul Revere. While in Boston, Dallin, traveling in several humanistic circles, became a colleague of Augustus St. Gaudens and a dear friend of John Singer Sargent. Dallin is best known for his iconic sculpture, A Signal of Peace which was exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

The artist journeyed back to Paris in the late 19th century and entered several sculptures into the Paris salon, notably The Medicine Man which was exhibited in 1889, and the 1900 Exposition Universelle winning a gold medal The famed sculpture eventually made its way home back to the United States, in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. The artist moved to Boston and at the end of his life, executed colonial images and commemorative plaques and figures in Pilgrim dress before passing away on the laurels of fame and fortune in 1944.

Sources:
The Smithsonian Online Files

Please see links for additional information on the artist.

Condition

- one repair to the pipe and one small hole.

Dimensions

3.5" W x 11.5" H x 4.0" D

- Aproximate height.

Item #

16WDC015-239

Additional Information

Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Massasoit Indian, Massasoit Indian

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