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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.
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Paul Manship (born December 25, 1885, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died January 31, 1966, New York, New York) was an American sculptor whose subjects and modern generalized style were largely inspired by classical sculpture. He is particularly well known for his large public commissions.
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Biography. Sculptor. The country's most famous exponent of Art Deco, he embraced archaic vocabularies of Greek, Roman, and Indian art to create decorative, stylized, Neoclassical works. The statue in the fountain in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, Prometheus (1933) is one of his famous works.
- December 24, 1885
- January 31, 1966
Considered the world’s greatest living sculptor in the 1920s and ’30s, Paul Manship is best-known for his towering, gilded bronze Prometheus fountain (completed in 1934) at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
Prometheus is a 1934 gilded, cast bronze sculpture by Paul Manship, located above the lower plaza at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. [ 1 ] It was created by the Roman Bronze Works , a subsidiary of the General Bronze Corporation in Corona, Queens .
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Jul 3, 2021 · One of America’s most celebrated sculptors of the early twentieth century, he is known for major public commissions such as Prometheus at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and the Rainey Memorial Gates at the Bronx Zoo. Manship spent his student years at the American Academy in Rome.
Biography. Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, sculptor Paul Manship attended the Minneapolis Institute of Art. At the age of twenty he moved to Philadelphia, where he was a sculptor's assistant as well as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
