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His energy and curiosity seemed to know no limits. His brain and fingers were always busy. The technical problems of sculpture fascinated him and he did not rest until he had mastered them and could direct with authority even his bronze-casters.

Paul delighted in drawing or modelling birds and animals and his lordly bronze gates to the Bronx zoo are rich in feline strength, the sad absurdity of apes and the amusing pomp and solemnity of the Ibis, the Cane and the Heron. He kept no pets at home or in his studio from apprehension that their fur or feathers might provoke his recurring asthma.

The armillary sphere and the signs of the Zodiac with their exciting mixture of demi-gods and beasts, were among his favorite subjects and a huge Celestial Sphere was his tribute to Woodrow Wilson at the League of Nation's Building in Geneva. 

The happiest and most fertile of his friendships was with Eric Gugler whose energy and genius in architecture was a mate to his own in sculpture. Laughing, smoking and drinking together they planned many future projects. Their two most successful collaborations are the American War Memorial at Anzio and the National Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.


Manship loved our Academy and went there when any or no excuse offered. In 1914 he was in Rome, held up by the War and later wrote the following letter:

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Spellings: 'the crane and the heron'? The League of Nations Building