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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1113
People
Paul Manship, American (St. Paul, MN 1885 - 1966 New York, NY)
Title
Celestial Sphere
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299810

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Paul/Manship 1934

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Manship, New York, New York, sold; to Grenville L.Winthrop, New York, New York (through Martin Birnbaum), 1935, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1113
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Art Exhibitions: Works by American Sculptor", The Times [London] (June 19, 1935)
  • Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1957), p. 179, no. 343, fig. 10
  • Clive Dilnot, "The Enigma of Things", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Winter 1993 - Winter 1994), vol. II, no. 2, repr. p. 57
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), p. 19, fig. 13

Exhibition History

  • Paul Manship, Tate Britain, London, 06/01/1935 - 06/30/1935
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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