'Lyric Muse'

Created during the spring of his final year at the American Academy in Rome,' Lyric Muse' was one of a series of small Greek-inspired sculptures that "were all distinguished for strong design, carefully organized decorative patterns, and especially crisp and suave modeling...The three of them combined in the same work resulted in an art that was profoundly different from the naturalistic, freely modeled sculpture of the prevailing American style...Within a few years Manship's lead in imposing effective sculptural forms upon nature was being followed by many young American sculptors." (E. Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, p. 11)

According to Edwin Murtha 'Lyric Muse' is an edition size of fifteen. Other examples of this work are in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.