After his return from Rome in 1912, Manship applied the format and style of preclassical works to such subjects as an Indigenous man and the pronghorn antelope he is hunting (MMA 48.149.27). The pendant pieces are intended to be displayed side by side; the central space connecting the works is activated by the flight of an arrow. The kneeling figure, with an animal skin draped over his left thigh, has just released the arrow from his bow. Manship’s interest in archaic Greek sculpture is evoked in the stylized patterns of the man’s plaited hair.
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Marking: Foundry mark (base): ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N–Y–
George D. Pratt, New York (until d. 1935; his bequest to MMA, with life interest to Vera Pratt); his widow, Vera Amherst Hale Pratt, New York (1935–48; life interest waived in 1948; to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Sculpture from the Collections of the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum," June 20, 1947–May 31, 1950, no catalogue.
Corning Museum of Glass. "The Deerslayers," September 29–November 18, 1956, not in brochure.
Denver Art Museum. "The Western Spirit: Exploring New Territory in American Art," February 23–April 30, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 80).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925," December 16, 2013–April 13, 2014, no. 32 (ill. Amon Carter Museum cast).
Nanjing Museum. "The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925," September 29, 2014–January 18, 2015, unnumbered cat. (pp. 128–29).
Albany. New York State Museum. "Imaging the American West: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 9–July 17, 2016, not in brochure.
Alan Priest. "Loans from the Collection of George D. Pratt." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (December 1940), p. 238.
Carlyle Burrows. "Art of the Week: Some Notes on the New Summer Displays." New York Herald Tribune (June 22, 1947), p. C5.
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 151, 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, p. 751, no. 377, ill. p. 752.
Thayer Tolles. "Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, and the 'John Pierpont Morgan Memorial' for the." Metropolitan Museum Journal 41 (2006), p. 180.
Carol Clark in Thayer Tolles and Thomas Brent Smith. The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2013, pp. 53–54, 171, 180 n. 75, no. 32, fig. 66 (color, ill. Amon Carter Museum cast).
Karen Lemmey in Thayer Tolles and Thomas Brent Smith. The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2013, p. 158.
Paul Manship (American, St. Paul, Minnesota 1885–1966 New York)
1930
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