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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.164
People
Paul Manship, American (St. Paul, MN 1885 - 1966 New York, NY)
Title
Centaur and Dryad
Other Titles
Former Title: Centaur and Nymph
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1913
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231837

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
72.4 x 29.2 x 53.3 cm (28 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 21 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base: Paul Manship , Signed Date: 1913

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Manship, New York, New York, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (through Martin Birnbaum, [Scott & Fowles, New York, New York]), 1917, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.164
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul Vitry, Paul Manship Sculpteur Americain, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1927), p. 36, pl. 7, 8
  • Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1957), p. 150, pl. 2, no. 28

Exhibition History

  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001

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