Paul Manship

Paul Manship
Manship in 1941
Born
Paul Howard Manship

(1885-12-25)December 25, 1885
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 1966(1966-01-31) (aged 80)
New York, U.S.
Known forSculpture

Paul Howard Manship (December 25, 1885 – January 31, 1966) was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is well known for his large public commissions, including the iconic Prometheus in Rockefeller Center[1] and the Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also credited for designing the modern rendition of New York City's official seal.[2]

Manship gained notice early in his career for rejecting the Beaux-Arts architecture movement and preferring linear compositions with a flowing simplicity. Additionally, he shared a summer home in Plainfield, New Hampshire, part of the Cornish Art Colony, with William Zorach for a number of years. Other members of the highly social colony were also contemporary artists.[3] Manship created his own artist retreat on Cape Ann, developing a 15-acre site on two former granite quarries in Lanesville, a village of Gloucester, MA. A local nonprofit, the Manship Artists Residency + Studios was established in 2015 to preserve this estate as an artist residency program.[4]

  1. ^ Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Paul Manship". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ Hall, Edward Hagaman (1915). "Appendix H– Seal and Flag of the City of New York". Twentieth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers. p. 819.
  3. ^ Gilbert-Smith, Alma. "Cornish Colony". askART.
  4. ^ http://www.ManshipArtists.org [bare URL]