DOI Heft:
No. 343 (October 1921)
DOI Artikel:Gallatin, Albert E.: An American sculptor: Paul Manship
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0154
AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR: PAUL MANSHIP
Cezanne and Manet for its starting point,
was admirably supplemented by a large
collection of drawings and prints. The con-
temporary British school is also quite well
known in America, chiefly owing to the
exhibiting of large numbers of the war
pictures commissioned by the British and
Canadian governments, which comprised
paintings and drawings by the majority of
the representative men, including John, the
Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen, Rothenstein,
Kennington and Bone. 000
It seems to me regrettable that so little
contemporary American art by the men of
real ability—there is plenty of the other
sort—should find its way to Europe ; the
collections recently sent abroad were far
from being satisfactory. Certainly it is
lamentable that the water-colour land-
scapes of John Marin have never been
shown in London and Paris, for Marin is
undoubtedly in the very forefront of living
artists. Ernest Lawson, William Glackens,
Arthur Davies, George Luks and Max
Kuehne are among the other gifted
Americans whose paintings are scarcely
known to Europeans. For that matter,,
neither are the canvases of Winslow
Homer, Twachtman and Ryder ; Whistler
and Sargent being among the very few
more important American painters who are
known, 000000
One was therefore particularly glad to-
encounter the exhibition of sculpture by
Paul Manship which was held in London
at the Leicester Galleries during the early
part of this summer, an exhibition which
followed one of Mrs. Whitney's sculpture,
and was coincident with an exhibition of
Herbert Haseltine's splendidly modelled
equestrian statuettes. 000
II.
Mr. Manship is an eclectic, his studies
have taken him far afield ; he has drunk
deeply at the great fountain head of Greek
sculpture, as well as absorbing the lessons
to be learned by intelligent study of the art
of the Hindu, the Buddhist, and the many
masters of the Italian Renaissance. Withal
he is distinctly an original artist, as have
been many other of the great eclectics. His
"INDIAN HUNTER " AND " PRONG-
HORN ANTELOPE " (COMPANION
PIECES). BY PAUL MANSHIP
I38
Cezanne and Manet for its starting point,
was admirably supplemented by a large
collection of drawings and prints. The con-
temporary British school is also quite well
known in America, chiefly owing to the
exhibiting of large numbers of the war
pictures commissioned by the British and
Canadian governments, which comprised
paintings and drawings by the majority of
the representative men, including John, the
Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen, Rothenstein,
Kennington and Bone. 000
It seems to me regrettable that so little
contemporary American art by the men of
real ability—there is plenty of the other
sort—should find its way to Europe ; the
collections recently sent abroad were far
from being satisfactory. Certainly it is
lamentable that the water-colour land-
scapes of John Marin have never been
shown in London and Paris, for Marin is
undoubtedly in the very forefront of living
artists. Ernest Lawson, William Glackens,
Arthur Davies, George Luks and Max
Kuehne are among the other gifted
Americans whose paintings are scarcely
known to Europeans. For that matter,,
neither are the canvases of Winslow
Homer, Twachtman and Ryder ; Whistler
and Sargent being among the very few
more important American painters who are
known, 000000
One was therefore particularly glad to-
encounter the exhibition of sculpture by
Paul Manship which was held in London
at the Leicester Galleries during the early
part of this summer, an exhibition which
followed one of Mrs. Whitney's sculpture,
and was coincident with an exhibition of
Herbert Haseltine's splendidly modelled
equestrian statuettes. 000
II.
Mr. Manship is an eclectic, his studies
have taken him far afield ; he has drunk
deeply at the great fountain head of Greek
sculpture, as well as absorbing the lessons
to be learned by intelligent study of the art
of the Hindu, the Buddhist, and the many
masters of the Italian Renaissance. Withal
he is distinctly an original artist, as have
been many other of the great eclectics. His
"INDIAN HUNTER " AND " PRONG-
HORN ANTELOPE " (COMPANION
PIECES). BY PAUL MANSHIP
I38