Who is Paul Manship?

Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 – January 28, 1966) was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is competently known for his large public commissions, including the iconic Prometheus in Rockefeller Center and the Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also approved for designing the militant rendition of New York City’s approved seal

Manship gained notice early in his career for rejecting the Beaux-Arts architecture hobby and preferring linear compositions with a flowing simplicity. Additionally, he shared a summer house in Plainfield, New Hampshire, part of the Cornish Art Colony, with William Zorach for a number of years. Other members of the highly social colony were afterward contemporary artists. Manship created his own artiste retreat upon Cape Ann, developing a 15-acre site upon two former granite quarries in Lanesville, a village of Gloucester, MA. A local nonprofit, the Manship Artists Residency + Studios was standard in 2015 to preserve this house as an performer residency program.