Lot 842

After Cyrus Edwin Dallin "Indian Scout" Brass Sculpture

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After Cyrus Edwin Dallin "Indian Scout" Brass Sculpture
After Cyrus Edwin Dallin "Indian Scout" Brass Sculpture
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After Cyrus Edwin Dallin "Indian Scout" Brass Sculpture

Estimate: $1,600 - $2,250

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by Artemis Fine Arts
July 30, 2026 8:00 AM MDT
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Louisville, CO, US 80027

After Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861-1944). "Indian Scout" or "The Scout" brass sculpture. Modeled in 1910; cast ca. mid to late 20th century. Inscribed "1912 / C.E. Dallin" on base. Metal plaque with artist and title on custom marble plinth. Ca. 1950–1999 CE. A commanding equestrian group casts a Native American horseman shading his eyes as he surveys the distance, his mount halted mid-stride beneath him. The rider sits bareback, lance balanced across his thigh, feathered headdress trailing along his back, the whole composition charged with watchful stillness rather than motion. The brass carries a dark patina warmed by verdigris across the horse's flank and the figure's torso. Modeled on Cyrus Dallin's celebrated "The Scout," the piece descends from his "Indian Cycle" of mounted Indigenous subjects, here cast at substantial scale and mounted with an identifying plaque on a custom marble plinth. The base bears the inscription "1912 / C.E. Dallin." A later aftercast of an enduring American monument, it preserves the original's poised dignity and the sculptor's empathetic regard for his subject. Size: 34.5" W x 32.5" H x 7.5" D (87.6 cm W x 82.5 cm H x 19.1 cm D); on included custom stand: 34.5" W x 34.3" H x 12.5" D (87.6 cm W x 87.1 cm H x 31.8 cm D).

Cyrus Dallin first modeled "The Scout" in 1910, then enlarged it into a heroic ten-foot version in 1914. He entered the monumental cast in the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, where it earned a gold medal. Afterward the sculpture was installed temporarily in Kansas City's Penn Valley Park, where its acclaim led the city's residents to purchase it; it stands there still.

The work belongs to Dallin's renowned "Indian Cycle," alongside A Signal of Peace, The Medicine Man, The Protest, and Appeal to the Great Spirit. The series drew on preliminary studies the sculptor made while visiting Buffalo Bill's camp at Neuilly, France, during his Paris studies in 1888. His sympathy for Indigenous subjects ran deeper still: raised by pioneer parents in Springville, Utah, Dallin recalled playing as a child with Ute children, whose culture he remembered with admiration. By placing Native American men in the neoclassical equestrian form long reserved for military heroes and statesmen, Dallin asserted their dignity within American monumental sculpture. His contemporary Lorado Taft observed that where Rodin sought the heroic in everyday action, Dallin found it readily in his favored subjects, enriching American art through his sympathetic interpretations.

About the artist: Born in Springville, Utah Territory, Cyrus Edwin Dallin left for Boston at nineteen to study sculpture, going on to train in Paris under Henri Chapu and at the Academie Julian. He built a career that ranged from civic monuments to intimate portraiture, but it was his four great equestrian sculptures of Indigenous Americans, A Signal of Peace (1890), The Medicine Man (1899), Protest of the Sioux (1904), and Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908), that defined his legacy. Each won major honors: The Medicine Man took a gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and Appeal to the Great Spirit, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon. Among his other celebrated commissions are the Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere in Boston and the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake Temple. A faculty member at the Massachusetts Normal Art School for more than four decades, Dallin also competed as an archer at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the team event. He died in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1944. More than sixty of his works are held by the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum in Arlington, and his papers are archived at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection

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Item # 194213

  • Condition: Missing feather on head and reins are broken. Some scuffs and abrasions in areas, but, otherwise, very nice with good detail.

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