Archive of Signed Photographs and Letters by Paul Manship, American Sculptor

1930. Very Good. Manship, Paul. Archive of Signed Photographs and Letters by Paul Manship, American Sculptor, Paul Manship, N.P., circa 1930s.

Includes:
Five typed letters signed by Manship to Max Safron regarding Manship's potential design and creation of an equestrian statue of General John Pershing.
Eight typed retained copies of letters from Safron to Manship dated between April 28, 1938, and December 8, 1938, with the last asking Manship to sign a contract making Safron his agent for a 15 percent commission.
Eleven large black and white photographs of sculptures by Manfield, including the Soldier's Monument at the American Cemetery in Thiancourt, France; this and two of the other photographs noted and signed by Manship on verso.
Folder with two black and white double sided plate reprints from Architecture Magazine, September 1934 issue, of Manfield's Paul J. Rainey Memorial Gates sculpture at the New York Zoological Park.
A very good copy of the book Sculpture by Paul Manship, published 1933 by Averell House.

Most items stored in plastic sleeves; some photographs have dried adhesive to back; lot in very good condition.

Paul Manship (1885-1966) was an American sculptor and a major contributor to the Art Deco movement. His sculptures tended toward a Neoclassical, mythological style with clean shapes and simple, flowing lines. Among his most well-known public commissions are Prometheus in the fountain at Rockefeller Center and the Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland. Manship, who had begun drawing at a young age, emulating his older brother who worked as an engraver, attended the Saint Paul School of Art as a painter, but was stymied by his color blindness. He decided instead to pursue a career in sculpture, and the rest is history.