Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861-1944) Appeal to the Great Spirit inscribed '© C.E. Dallin 1913' (on the base) and stamped 'GORHAM Co. Founders / QPN' and '94.' (along the base edges) bronze with brown patina 22in high Modeled in 1913. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Vail, Colorado. Literature E. Wilbur Pomeroy, 'Cyrus E. Dallin and the North American Indian: Four Statues Which Express the Fate of a Dying Race,' Arts and Decoration, February 1914, p. 153, another example illustrated. R.G. Francis, Cyrus E. Dallin: Let Justice Be Done, Springville, Utah, 1928, pp. 33, 43-50, 52, another example illustrated. P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1973, pp. 94, 98, pl. 96, another example illustrated. Masterworks of American Sculpture: Selections from Members of the National Sculpture Society 1875-1999, Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 20-21, another example illustrated. K. Ahrens, Cyrus E. Dallin: His Small Bronzes and Plasters, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1995, no. 10, p. 51, 106, another example illustrated. D.B. Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, New York, 2004, p. 143, another example listed.