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Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1908 [1] equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.It portrays a Native American on horseback facing skyward, his arms spread wide in a spiritual request to the Great Spirit.
Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans.He created more than 260 works, including the Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere in Boston; the Angel Moroni atop Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City; and Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The museum is a joint venture of the Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Inc. (an independent nonprofit organization) and the Town of Arlington. In 1982, the Arlington Arts Council received a $720 grant from State Lottery funds, which were applied to a historic marker for the Robbins Memorial Flagstaff that includes five sculptures by Cyrus Dallin.
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.
Boston Mayor Hugh Obrien's signed contract confirmed the award. [3] Dallin executed several versions of the sculpture during the interim period and version number 6 is on display in the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. In 2024, the Museum installed a version of number 5 on a pedestal on the grounds.
The Chrysler is returning the statue, completed by Peter Stephenson in 1850, to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association after decades of allegations that it had been acquired improperly.
The bay or black Canadian horse, which derives from France via Louis XIV, has had an important impact on many of the native American breeds such as the Morgan, American saddlebred, and standardbred.
A replica of Shrady's statue in Brooklyn, New York City. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, Country Club Plaza, 1910. Relocated in the 1950s from Harbor Hill in Roslyn, New York. The four equestrian statues may be allegorical figures of major rivers, with the Native American rider representing the Mississippi River.