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PAUL MANSHIP
Paul Manship completed his studies at the American Academy in Rome in 1912 and brought with him to New York a series of small figure pieces which he had made in Rome. The figures had humor, a flower-like grace and flawless execution.
With the notable exception of the "Bacchaute" of Frederic MacMonnies, the note of gaiety had been absent from American Sculpture and when Manship exhibited his carefree work at the Architectural League of New York, the delighted architects, painters and sculptors bought out the collection. Here was the man for whom they had been looking. One of them turned poetic and compared Manship's abundance of talent and energy to the richness of nature in the spring of the year. The League exhibition was followed by a larger show at a commercial gallery which also sold out, launching the young sculptor on a successful career of fifty years.
Among the admirable early works were "The Girl and Gazelles", "Ride a Cock Horse"and "The Centaur and Dryard"; yet the portrait of his baby,-Pauline, Seven Days Old, surpassed them all in tenderness and depth of emotion. Her small half formed face looks with puzzled wonder at an unknown world and the delicacy of the tiny fingers searching for her wrapping is infinitely touching.
Manship's power of concentration was phenomenal. While at work he lived, lonely as a star, in a world where nothing could touch him, yet when the spasm passed he emerged from his dream, avid for fun and amusement. His energy and curiosity seemed to have no bounds; his brain and fingers were always at work. In the evenings he busied himself making designs for a statue or modelling a figurine in wax, while his wife, Isabel, read to him ponderous books in the art of India, Cambodia and China. In his occasional low moments she
[[footnote]] Rome Mamship- Nov 1st 1909.- 1912.
Faulkner. Feb 1st 1909- Feb 1st [[?]]