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Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861-1944)
Captured But Not Conquered
Signed and dated “© C.E. Dallin 1918” within
the cast on the base reverse l.r.
Plaster on steel armature, 33 1/8 x 10 1/2 x 7
1/2 in. (84.1 x 26.7 x 19.1 cm).
Condition: Break to right leg, stress cracks to
left leg, loss to base l.l.
Literature: Kent Abrens, Cyrus E. Dallin: His
Small Bronzes and Plasters (Corning, New
York: Rockwell Museum, 1995), pp. 76-7,
110.
N.B. The sculpture depicts Sergeant Edgar
M. Hallyburton, who was reportedly the first
American soldier captured in World War I on
November 3, 1917. Dallin was commissioned
by the Publicity Committee of the Liberty
Loan Committee of New England to create a
statuette to fund the Third and Fourth Liberty
Loan Campaigns. This plaster edition was
“displayed in show windows of merchants
throughout New England with a card reading-
-‘FIRST American soldier captured by the
Germans. How long shall we allow him to
remain a prisoner? Buy Liberty Bonds and set
him free.’”^1 The plasters were manufactured
by P.P. Caproni & Brother of Boston, and
a limited number were cast in bronze by
Gorham.^2- The Gillette Blade [monthly newsletter], September 1918, Vol. 1, No.
11 (Boston: Gillette Safety Razor Blade Company), p. 5. - Abrens, 76.
$2,500-3,500
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