Cyrus Dallin’s ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ - Museum of Fine Arts ...
Depicting a Native American man astride a horse with his arms outstretched, Appeal to the Great Spirit has become an icon of the MFA and one of the most reproduced objects in the collection. A part of the Museum’s history, it has entered today’s international debates about cultural appropriation, public monuments, and Indigenous erasure.
Appeal to the Great Spirit - Wikipedia
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.
Appeal to the Great Spirit - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Appeal to the Great Spirit" presents a Native man on horseback wearing a feathered headdress, his head raised and arms outspread in communion with a divine power. More than 400 authorized bronze statuettes were cast in three different sizes, testament to the popularity of sculptures depicting prevailing Euro-American visions of a "vanishing race."
Appeal to the Great Spirit – Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
Michelson’s sculptures share important insights on the enduring Indigenous presence on these lands and the truth of history. His work also creates opportunities to contemplate the ways in which Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit has shaped perceptions of Indigenous people.
Great Spirit - Wikipedia
The Great Spirit is an omnipresent supreme life force, generally conceptualized as a supreme being or god, in the traditional religious beliefs of many, but not all, indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States. Interpretations of it vary between cultures.
Appeal to the Great Spirit – Works - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
And while Appeal to the Great Spirit represents an Indigenous theme, its appearance is bound to traditions of European figurative and equestrian sculpture. The artist, Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861-1944), is best known for his portrait busts, monuments to historical luminaries, and Native American equestrian figures.
Appeal to the Great Spirit | Museum of Fine Arts Boston
2020年7月6日 · Appeal to the Great Spirit is a near-perfect encapsulation of the “vanishing race” trope—wherein Indigenous people are represented as a doomed race with no hope but to quietly vanish from the planet, to make way for the superior race.
A Closer Look at ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ - Museum of Fine …
In this five-minute video, originally included as part of the MFA’s virtual Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration in 2020, Layla Bermeo, Kristin and Roger Servison Associate Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, discusses the history of Appeal to the Great Spirit at the MFA.
Appeal to the Great Spirit - Hood Museum
Like the works of many other European and American artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cyrus Dallin’s sculpture narrates a specific story about the decline, loss, and erasure of Indigenous peoples of North America.
Appeal to the Great Spirit | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Appeal to the Great Spirit may have been inspired by a sculpture of the same name by Cyrus Dallin, which shows a Native American man on a horse, appealing to the sky.