Paul Manship Interview
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content: Manship, Paul, 1885-1966
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content: Paul Manship interview transcript
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content: 70 Pages (Folder 1)
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content: 1956
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.manspaul2, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: This interview of sculptor Paul Manship was conducted by the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, New York City, in 1956 and is 70 pages long. Manship recalls his family background and growing up in Jackson, Mississippi; his early art education; working as a studio assistant for Solon Borglum and later Isidore Konti; studying animal anatomy with Borglum; his trip to Spain with Hunt Diederich; his three-year fellowship at Pierpont Morgan Memorial, commissioned works such as the Bronx Zoological Garden gates, Pail J. Rainey Memorial Gateway; collaborations with architects; his friendship with John Singer Sargent; Manship's studio in Paris; the New York World's Fair, 1939; and exhibitions of his sculpture. There are two copies of the same interview in the folder.