Collection Highlights
Flags on 57th Street, Winter 1918
Date:
1918
Object Number:
1984.68
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paul Manship (1885-1966)
Object Number:
1947.190
Date:
c. 1945
Medium:
Watercolor and white gouache on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/4 x 18 1/8 in. ( 61.6 x 46 cm )
Marks:
signature: Signature in ink lower left. In pencil lower right.
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Manship, the sculptor of the colossal figure of Prometheus in Rockefeller Plaza, was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts he won a scholarship to the American Academy in Rome where he was to spend much of his long, productive career.
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
