User:Regregory48/A Signal of Peace
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A Signal of Peace is an 1890 bronze equestrian sculpture by Cyrus Edwin Dallin located in Lincoln Park, Chicago.
Cyrus Dallin grew a love and admiration for Native Americans from a young age, growing up in Utah near the home of multiple indigenous tribes, and he manifested this admiration into his art, consisting mainly of equestrian statues.[1]
Dallin gained inspiration for A Signal of Peace in 1890 while studying art in Paris, and based the model off a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which he was fascinated with and attended often. He entered it into the Paris Salon of 1890 and won honorable mention for his work.[1]
In 1893, Lambert Tree bought the statue at the World's Columbian Exposition for $10,000, and donated it to Lincoln Park in Chicago, where it has now stood since the summer of 1894.[2]
Despite evidence that displays Dallin's admiration for indigenous people and critiques of their treatment by white settlers, the monument is politically contested due to other artistic representations of Native Americans that have been perceived as problematic for their depiction of them as "savages," and a "dying race."[3]