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 Sophisticated: The Magazine.
Photo illustration of Group of Six Birds
by Paul Manship,
gilt-bronze on lapis lazuli bases, 1932. Left
to right: Crowned Crane,
Concave-casqued Hornbill, Black-Neck Stork, Goliath
Heron, Flaming
(inspiration for S:TM's mascot Flamer), Pelican.
The National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, reproduced
here by permission of
Thames and Hudson, Ltd. publisher of
American Art Deco by Alastaire Duncan,
1942.
Diana by Paul Manship, bronze, 1921, the
model
illustrated in Paul Manship,retrospective
exhibition
catalog, Smithsonian Institution, 1958, cover
illustration;
photo by Christie's New York reproduced here
by permission of
Thames and Hudson, Ltd. publisher of
American Art Deco by Alastaire Duncan,
1942.
