Lyric Muse
Paul Manship, American, 1885 - 1966
Roman Bronze Works, New York
1912
Bronze with green-brown patina
Edition of 15
Overall: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (34.3 × 26.7 × 15.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
S.991.35
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated: PAUL MANSHIP / (c) ROME 1912; Foundry Mark: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N - Y -
Course History
CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2020
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Aspects of Sculpture: the Paul Magriel Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, July 28-September 15, 1985; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 22-October 27, 1985; Davidon Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, November 7-December 15, 1985; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1985-February 16, 1986, no. 77.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 21, 1992-June 22, 1997.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-April 18, 2001.
Selected Sculpture and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 10, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 16-July 5, 1992.
Publication History
John T. Spike, Aspects of Sculpture: the Paul Magriel Collection, Florence, Italy: Artigraf, 1985, p. 89, ill. p. 88.
E. Murtha, Paul Manship, 1957, 150, no. 19, pl. 4.
P. Vitry, Paul Manship, Sculpteur Americain, 1927, 35, pl. 4 (as La Poisie Lyrique)
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 121, no. 94.
Provenance
Dates unknown, in the collection of Paul Magriel; 1991 purchased by Dartmouth College from Robert Dance, Inc., New York, New York.
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