Paul Revere's Ride
Artist
Cyrus Edwin Dallin
(American, 1861–1944)
Foundrycast by
Roman Bronze Works
(New York, 1897–about 1988)
Datecast 1951
Mediumcast bronze
Dimensions90.2 × 30.5 × 81.3 cm (35 1/2 × 12 × 32 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of UnumProvident Corporation. Additional support for this acquisition was made possible through Chris Collins and the Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Fund.
Object number2021.89
Label TextIn 1882, a committee of notable Bostonians sponsored a competition to create a life-size sculpture of Paul Revere for installation near Old North Church in Boston. A young artist, Cyrus Dallin, won the commission, though his sculpture would not be realized due to an indecisive committee and lack of funds until five decades later, after he had created seven different versions. Dallin contracted with the Boston plaster cast company P. P. Caproni to sell reproductions of the fifth version, created in 1899, to private collectors and educational institutions. In 1951, the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company (now Unum Insurance) in Worcester decided to cast one of these plaster reproductions in bronze. After evaluating all existing plaster replicas, the company chose a model located at Forest Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Roman Bronze Works, a notable New York firm for many American sculptors, cast two copies of the model: one for the elementary school and the other that now resides here in Worcester.On View
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