- CountryUS
- Town:MA Boston
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Year of creation:1908
- Rider(s):Appeal to the great spirit
- Sculptor(s):Dallin, Cyrus Edwin
(1861–1944) created only one equestrian statue: of Paul Revere in Boston. Dallin was best known for his outstanding four-piece equestrian sculpture series called The Epic of the Indian, consisting of A Signal of Peace, in Chicago, The Medicine Man in Philadelphia, The Protest, and Appeal to the Great Spirit. The full-size plaster version of The Protest was exhibited at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it won a gold medal. The mounted brave defiantly shaking his fist at an enemy was never cast as a full-size bronze, and survives only in statuette form.
This statue was cast in Paris, and won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon.
A small copy of the sculpture stood in the Oval Office when Barack Obama was President of the US..