PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966)

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PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966)

A Bronze Figure of a Fawn

stamped PRESSMANN BAUER & C^. and BAVARIA-MUNICH
16in. (40.6cm.) high, on pink granite base, brown patina with black lacquer

Literature

E. Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, cat. nos. 344, 421, plates 59, 66 for the gates and the group
H. Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 102-120, fig. 99, 113 for the gates and the stag
J.P. Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pp. 188-121, figs. 109-113 for the gates

Lot Essay

The fawn was first conceived as part of a family of deer for one of the spandrels in the Paul J. Rainey Memorial Gateway to the New York Zoological Gardens, Bronx, New York. Commissioned in 1923 by Grace Rainey Rogers, the gateway was dedicated on June 14, 1934. The deer family was later cast as a group as well as individually.

Examples of other animals from the gate were also cast by Pressman-Bauer and mounted on similar bases.