Hi Alicia,

Thank you for contacting Mearto with your appraisal inquiry.

According to AskArt.com, a widely respected auction-results subscription database, Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861 - 1944) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Utah and France. He is known for Native American figure sculpture, portrait busts, statues.

A sculptor of Indian figures and portraits, Cyrus Dallin created work that showed Indians as having noble bearing, simplicity, dignity, and elaborate costumes. This was a departure from earlier depictions of them "as a pitiful but appealing remnant of a once-proud and noble race." (Baigell 85) He was a careful student of anatomy, costume, and psysiognomay, and his highly realistic figures made them seem natural, interesting and worth knowing as human beings.

One of his major pieces is the statue of Paul Revere at Boston's Old North Church, for which he won an equestrian art contest. Another famous work is Appeal to the Great Spirit, at the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts. Other important works are in Chicago, Signal of Peace in Lincoln Park; Medicine Man in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, and Massasoit at Plymouth, Massachusetts to commemorate the peace of 1621 between the Indians and the Pilgrims.

Your sculpture is titled "On the War Path" and was modeled in 1914, in three sizes; you have the middle size and one that has come to auction most commonly. When this sized-model has come to auction, ones that have been cast at the Gorham Foundry have brought prices ranging from $20,000-26,000; a presale estimate of $15,000-25,000 would be appropriate if selling this at auction. If you're going to insure this, a value of $40,000 would be appropriate.

If this is determined to be from a later or posthumous casting, at another foundry, or is not bronze but another metal or material, it would have a lower value, both for auction and insurance purposes.

Based on the photos and information provided, and subject to examination, this is:

Cyrus Edwin Dallin
"On The War Path"
originally modeled in 1914
signed to the base
18 inches high by 24 inches wide
CONDITION: this appears to be in good condition
PROVENANCE: Inherited
$ 20,000-30,000*
*represents a fair-market value for auction purposes; retail or asking price may vary.

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~ Delia