Paul (Howard) Manship - Images

Sculptor, born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. He studied in New York City and Philadelphia, and attended the American Academy in Rome (1908–12), where he was greatly influenced by antique sculpture. He then returned to the USA, and became renowned for his bronze figurative sculptures, which drew heavily on Roman and Greek sources. His many important commissions include the gilded ‘Prometheus Fountain’ (1934) for the Rockefeller Center, New York City.

Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 – January 28, 1966) was a prominent American sculptor of the 20th century.

Paul Manship began his art studies at the St. Paul School of Art in Minnesota.

In 1909, at Konti's urging, he entered the competition for, and won, the highly sought-after Prix de Rome and shortly there after encamped for Rome where he attended the American Academy from 1909 until 1912. Manship was one of the first artists to become aware of the vast scope of art history being newly excavated at the time and became intensely interested in Egyptian, Assyrian and pre-classical Greek sculpture.

When he returned to America from his European sojourn, Manship found that his style was attractive to both modernists and conservatives.

Manship produced over 700 works in his career and always employed assistants of the highest quality.

Although not known as a portraitist, he did produce statues and busts of Theodore Roosevelt, Samuel Osgood, John D.

Manship was chosen by the American Battle Monuments Commission to create monuments following both the First and Second World Wars.

Although he did not produce many public monuments in his long and illustrious career, like many other sculptors of the day Manship created some architectural sculpture and a number of fountains. Pierpont Morgan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920 Paul Rainey Memorial Gateway, Bronx Zoo, New York, 1934 the Prometheus Fountain, Rockefeller Center, New York, 1934.

Manship was also father of the artist and sculptor John Manship (1927-2000).

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"Diana and a Hound"	"Prometheus" at Rockefeller Center	"Group of Bears"	"Dancer with Gazelles", 1916
"Indian Hunter and His Dog", 1926	"Young Lincoln" or "Hoosier Youth", Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1932	"Young Lincoln" or "Hoosier Youth" (detail), Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1932