“Appeal to the great spirit” was sculpted by Cyrus Edwin Dallin. The sculpture stands over 10 feet tall in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. This powerful sculpture conveys defiance and desperation through the use of a Native American man. Appeal to the great spirit was first displayed at the national sculptors society exhibit in Baltimore in 1908. The work won the gold medal at the Paris salon the next year. The sculpture is also done to scale.
The sculpture itself displays a Native American man leaning back on his horse with his arms out. The Native American man displays defiance
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