Dancer and Gazelles

model by February 1916, cast by December 1917

Paul Manship

Sculptor, American, 1885 - 1966

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G36

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1885-1966]; purchased 5 January 1920 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1917

  • Winter Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1917-1918, no. 13, repro.

1918

  • An Exhibition of American Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1918-1919, no. 53, repro., as Girl with Gazelles.

1919

  • Possibly First Annual Exhibition: Contemporary International Art, Dallas Art Association at the Adolphus Hotel, 1919, no. 122, as Dancing Girl and Gazelles.[1]

1920

  • Exhibition of Works in Sculpture by Paul Manship, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1920, no. 38.

1937

  • Special Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937, no. 67, repro.

1958

  • A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1958, no. 89.

1963

  • Four Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1963-1964, unnumbered catalogue.

1966

  • Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1976

  • 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1976, no. 156, pl. 36.

2002

  • Picturing the Corcoran's Sculpture: Photographs by David Finn, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 November - 30 December 2002.

Bibliography

1917

  • Gallatin, A.E. Paul Manship: A Critical Essay on His Sculpture and an Iconography. New York, 1917: 5, 15.

  • Kobbe, Gustave. "Noteworthy Works of Art in National Academy's Exhibition with one of Mr. Sargent's "Rockefellers" in place of Honor." New York Herald ( December 1917): 8.

  • Cortissoz, Royal. "The Present State of American Painting: How it is Illustrated in the Winter Exhibition of the Academy of Design -- The Apparent Answer to Modernism." New York Tribune (December 1971): 3.

1967

  • Dodd, Loring Holmes. Golden Moments in American Sculpture. Cambridge, MA, 1967: 73.

1984

  • Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark and New York, 1984: 566, fig. 15.6.

1993

  • Rather, Susan. Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship. Austin, 1993: 117.

Inscriptions

on top of base near dancer's left foot: PAUL MANSHIP / [copyright symbol] 1916; on top of base near back right corner: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.

Markings

FM: Roman Bronze Works

Wikidata ID

Q63864309

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