Studio: international art (82.1921)

AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR: PAUL MANSHIP

"THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER
PAULINE, THREE WEEKS
OLD." BY PAUL MANSHIP

mind has acted as a crucible, and he is an
excellent example of Sir Joshua's dictum
that the more familiar an artist be " with
the works of those who have excelled, the
more extensive will be your power of
invention." 0000a

After a course of study in America, Mr.
Manship went to Europe, where he studied
the work of Michelangelo and Donatello, as
well as the various periods of Greek sculp-
ture. His close and intelligent study of
Greek art was a very potent factor in
bringing his own to fruition. From these
masterpieces he learned many invaluable
lessons and derived knowledge which a

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little later enabled him to^create original
works of his own, in exactly the same
fashion that the majority of the great poets
and writers of prose have first saturated
themselves in the classics of literature. The
creations of Manship showing this influ-
ence possess a spark of life and a vigour
that one never finds in the lifeless and
frigid imitations of Greek sculpture which
were produced by Canova, Thorvaldsen
and Flaxman. In these works, as in others,
Manship's treatment of the hair is distinctly
archaic, but at the same time it is peculiarly
his own. Sir Claude Phillips, writing of
Manship's art in the Daily Telegraph, made