The sweeping curves and articulated silhouette of this group make it one of Manship's finest compositions. A graceful seminude dancer is poised on her toes between two gazelles that seem to move in rhythmic counterpoint to the dancer's swirling drapery. The inspiration that Manship derived from Indian art is particularly apparent in this work.
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Marking: Foundry mark (top of base, rear): ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y. Cast number (underside of base): No. 8
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, New York (until 1959; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 4, 1959, no. 102, as "Bronze Group," sold to MMA)
New York. Berlin Photographic Company. "Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship," February 15–March 8, 1916, no. 8.
The White House, Washington D.C. "The White House Festival of the Arts," June 14, 1965, brochure no. 17.
New York. National Arts Club. "Paul Manship Memorial Exhibition," May 10–24, 1966, unnumbered cat.
Vincent Astor Gallery, Library & Museum of the Performing Arts, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. "Dance in Sculpture," February 1–April 30, 1971, unnumbered cat. (section V).
Philadelphia Art Alliance. "Dance in Sculpture," November 4–29, 1971, no catalogue.
New York Cultural Center. "Grand Reserves: An Exhibition of 235 Objects from the Reserves of Fifteen New York Museum and Public Collections," October 24–December 8, 1974, no. 150.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan," January 29, 1976–January 2, 1977, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Art of Paul Manship," June 11–September 1, 1991, not in catalogue.
Ithaca. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. "The Art of Paul Manship," September 24–November 24, 1991, not in catalogue.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Cast Images: American Bronze Sculpture from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 20, 2007–February 24, 2008, unnum. brochure.
Martin Birnbaum. Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship. Exh. cat., Berlin Photographic Company. New York, 1916, pp. 11, 13, no. 8.
A. E. Gallatin. "The Sculpture of Paul Manship." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11 (October 1916), p. 220.
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, pp. 152–53, ill.
Marshall B. Davidson. The American Heritage History of the Artists' America. New York, 1973, pp. 324–25, ill.
Joan M. Marter inAmerican Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 760–61, no. 382, ill. (color).
Thayer Tolles. "Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, and the 'John Pierpont Morgan Memorial' for the." Metropolitan Museum Journal 41 (2006), p. 180.
Paul Manship (American, St. Paul, Minnesota 1885–1966 New York)
1927
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