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  Paul Howard Manship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Paul Manship's rather extensive sculptural production of figures and scenes from Greek mythology, and animal vignettes - at its height of popularity in the period between the two World Wars - was largely inspired by images in antique classical sculpture and vase painting.
Manship was able to study firsthand, and later, adopt archaic styles when he was selected for the American Academy in Rome fellowship, a position Konti encouraged Manship to apply for.
Manship never worked towards the abstraction so popular in the early twentieth century, or the influential ideals put forth by such well known and admired sculptors as Rodin, and yet Manship's works were not just re-creations of the Archaic style either.
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 Paul Manship - Biography - Featured American Sculpture at Spanierman Gallery, LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Paul Manship's significance as one of America's foremost sculptors of the early twentieth century lay in his ability to combine a modernist approach to form within the bounds of figurative art.
Manship was born in l885 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he studied painting and sculpture in the evenings at the St. Paul Institute between l892 and l903.
Manship's fame was solidified with a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in l935 and, later, one-man shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in l937 and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in l945.
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 The Pygmalion Syndrome Art Gallery: Diana by Paul Manship
Despite Paul’s disappointment with this piece, it is characteristic of his art: the gravity-defying figure with its stylized details, the strongly rhythmic outline of the composition, even the ring of the zodiac are all essential elements of Manship’s mature work.
Paul therefore had a wide choice and eventually purchased fourteen acres of quarry land in Lanesville, Massachusetts, across the street from the Natti’s farmhouse and a short walk to the village, a distinct advantage during the war, when no one had a car.
Paul Manship did commissioned work during his later years, but he also worked on a number of pieces for his own pleasure, including a series of small bronzes modeled originally in wax and cast by the lost-wax process.
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 ArtsNet Minnesota: Designing Spaces and Places
Paul Manship was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and always loved to draw.
Manship was influenced by ancient art and interpreted it with a modern, streamlined twist in all of his work.
Paul Manship was making his breakfast in his New York apartment when he died in 1966 at 81 years old.
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Paul Manship was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Manship's work, frequently classical in subject matter and influence, was conservative by comparison with the work of his contemporaries.
Manship resurrected the most basic principles of archaic and classical sculpture and blended the features of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance occidental sculpture with traces of oriental art, mainly Indian and Japanese.
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 Paul Manship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An artist whose work bridged the traditional and the modern, Paul Manship was one of the outstanding American sculptors of the early part of this century.
Receiving distinguished recognition for his emerging talent, Manship was awarded, at the age of twenty-four, the American Prix de Rome, and with it the opportunity to study for three years at the American Academy in Rome and to travel in Greece.
Manship delighted in ways of translating or updating archaic themes, whether drawn from the arts of ancient Egypt, Greece, or India.
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 Paul Manship biography, Paul Manship art deco period, Paul Manship sculptor
Born in 1885, Paul Manship is one of America's most prominent sculptors of the early 20th century.
Manship was born in St Paul Minnesota where he studies sculpture and painting at the St Paul Institute from 1892 to 1903.
In 1905 Manship moved to New York City and became the apprentice of George Bridgman and Jo Davidson - experts in human anatomy and portrait sculpting.
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 Paul Howard Manship - Indian Hunter and His Dog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Manship favored bronze as an artistic medium, employing a variety of patinas with each work he produced.
Manship also found the material's hardness, and it's ability to be finished off to a smooth, crisp sheen important to portray his sculptural lines.
This piece is a reproduction of an earlier, commemorative life-size rendering done in 1925 as the centerpiece for a fountain in Manship's hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota.
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 Paul Manship - Flight of Europa - Featured American Sculpture at Spanierman Gallery, LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
However, during a three-year sojourn at the American Academy in Rome, at which time he immersed himself in the art of antiquity, Manship came to the conclusion that his Rodinesque-inspired manner was unsuitable to the twentieth century and began looking for an alternative method of interpreting the figure.
Manship’s reliance on ancient sources is evident not only in his style, but in his choice of motifs as well.
The enduring legacy of Manship’s exposure to ancient and primitive art is also apparent in his equally stylized treatment of the drapery, described in terms of flat, linear folds.
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It relates to ancient Roman personifications of the sun and the moon as gods and goddesses; Apollo, often seen in a chariot, draws the sun daily across the sky and chases Diana and her nymphs from the sky and into the darkness.
Manship's moon-goddess, shown in a graceful, crescent-shaped pose and trailing the stars behind her in her gown, appears in other of his sculptures as well, including Diana (1925), Evening (1937), and Night (1938).
Manship moved to New York in 1905 to study at the Art Students' League.
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Paul Manship at work in his studio, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0085152.
By the time he was fifteen years old, Paul Manship had decided he wanted to become a sculptor.
Some of Manship's well-known works are the Prometheus Fountain in Rockefeller Center, the gates to the entrances of the Bronx Zoo and the Central Park Zoo, and the Time and Fates Sundial and Moods of Time sculptures installed in front of Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=3096   (525 words)

  
 Paul Manship Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Eve (#1) 1935 Paul Manship bronze 44 in.
Jeanne d"Arc Medal 1915 Paul Manship bronze 2 7/8 in.
Joan of Arc Medal 1915 Paul Manship bronze 2 3/4 in.
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 Amon Carter Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Amon Carter Museum recently purchased a pair of bronzes by early twentieth-century sculptor Paul Manship with funds from the Ruth Carter Stevenson Acquisitions Endowment.
Manship designed them to spatially span the distance between two pedestals incorporated in the mantelpiece of his New York City apartment.
Manship (1885-1966), a native of Minnesota, began studying sculpture at the age of fifteen.
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 MMAA: Paul Manship
In St. Paul, Paul Manship attended the Mechanic Arts High School but dropped out to pursue a career as an artist.
At the young age of 23, Manship was awarded a fellowship to study for three years at the Academy in Rome.
Manship was more interested in the structure of a face than the surface details, following the stylization of ancient Greek and Egyptian sculpture.
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 Additional Reading (from Manship, Paul) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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 AllRefer.com - Paul Howard Manship (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Paul, Minn., studied at St. Paul Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the American Academy at Rome.
He often went to classical mythology for his subjects.
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 Paul Manship Prometheus Sculpture in Rockefeller Plaza
Paul Manship's 1934 Prometheus at the RCA Building
Paul Howard Manship, 1885 - 1966, American sculptor, born St. Paul, Minnesota, studied at St. Paul Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the American Academy at Rome.
He received many awards and was a member of the Legion of Honor.
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 Paul Manship (1885 - 1966) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Paul Manship worked mostly out of New York where he established a successful career as a public sculptor.
For a time, Manship was considered a leader of modern American sculpture, but by 1940 was primarily thought of as an academic artist.
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 SAAM :: Mythology and the Art of Paul Manship
Europa, the princess of Phoenicia, was playing with her companions by the sea when Zeus, king of the gods, saw her and fell in love.
Diana was the woodland goddess of the moon and of hunting, as well as the protector of wild animals, women, children, and weak creatures.
Each year as a tribute to King Minos, fourteen Athenian girls and boys were sacrificed to the monstrous Minotaur, a creature half-man and half-bull, who dwelt in a labyrinth on the island of Crete.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Paul Manship
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Paul Manship
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906), French painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic...
Klee, Paul (1879-1940), Swiss painter, watercolorist, and etcher, who was one of the most original masters of modern art.
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 American Painting and Sculpture
When Paul Manship returned to New York after three years’ study in Rome, his sculpture caused an immediate sensation.
Unlike his predecessors who relied on classical Greek and Roman models, Manship borrowed both his forms and decorative motifs from pre-classical Greek and Egyptian sculpture, as well as from the art of India and Southeast Asia.
In Manship’s work, these circles are shown as interlocking bronze bands, some decorated with zodiacal signs, others with symbols of the four elements, and yet others with numbers on which the sun’s moving shadow reveals the hour.
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 Paul Manship Online
Paul Manship in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Paul Manship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
All images and text on this Paul Manship page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Paul Manship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1909 at age twenty-four, Manship completed a number of highly visible public commissions in his long career.
In this photograph Manship poses in his studio behind a marble bear and in front of another of his famous commissions, the Celestial Sphere, done in honor of Woodrow Wilson.
Ultimately destined for a location in front of the European offices of the United Nations in Geneva, this monumental sphere combines Manship's interest in Greek classicism with his dedication to the high modernist aesthetic.
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 Prometheus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For the first time, this sculpture is being made available to the art collector and connoisseur with the approval and supervision of the sculptor's son, John Manship, himself an acclaimed sculptor.
Manship's Prometheus is seen as he descends from Mount Olympus, encircled by the ring of the zodiac.
Almost identical to the statue at Rockefeller Center, though diminutive in scale, this maquette captures the stylized strength and gravity-defying element of Paul Manship's creative process.
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 Minnesota Daily
Paul Manship, a St. Paul native, contributed to the development of Art Deco with his dramatic style.
Though they found their influences in very different time periods and places, both sculptors successfully created lasting, dynamic sculptures for the modern age that are enjoyed today.
After settling in St. Paul and as a student at Humboldt High School and Carleton College, Xiong experienced firsthand the difficult transition into a new culture that many Hmong-American youths are faced with.
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orn in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1885, Paul Manship studied at the St. Paul Institute, the Art Students League in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the American Academy in Rome, there winning the Pix de Rome in 1909.
Manship traveled in Europe and the Middle East, developing a stylized interpretation of antiquity.
Manship's good-humored animal sculptures were initiated by commissions from a patron of the New York Zoolaogical Park in Bronx, but his archaic preferences are shown well by Diane, which was a cover selection for
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 Paul Manship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Paul Manship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 - January 28, 1966) was a prominent (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (An artist who creates sculptures) sculptor of the early (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century.
Many of his sculptures show a strong (A style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production) Art Deco influence.
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 JAIC 1979, Volume 19, Number 1, Article 4 (pp. 24 to 33)
IN 1932, the United States Congress established a nature preserve on an island in the middle of the Potomac River, at Washington, D.C., to commemorate the contributions of President Theodore Roosevelt to the conservation of wildlife and natural resources.
The sculpture was commissioned from the American sculptor, Paul Manship (1885–1966), and cast at the Battaglia Art Foundry, Milan, Italy.
Theodore Roosevelt by Paul Manship, after washing and rewaxing in 1979.
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 Shop / The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The decoration on this frame is derived from American Artist Paul Manship’s (1885 — 1966) 1916 bronze sculpture Dancer and Gazelles, part of the Corcoran’s permanent collection.
Manship’s clarity and elegance of line and streamlining of form is representative of American sculpture of the late twenties and thirties.
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