MANSHIP, PAUL ), American sculptor, was born in St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 25, 1885. He studied at the St. Paul Institute of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia, and in New York city. In 1909 he went to Rome, having been awarded a scholarship at the American Academy there, and remained abroad three years. On his return to the United States his works quickly attracted attention by their indi viduality, and his figures, exhibiting archaic traits skilfully coupled with intensely modern feeling, placed him in the front rank of American sculptors. In 1914 he was awarded the G. F. Widener Memorial Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining also a gold medal at the San Francisco Exposition, 1915. In 1924 he won the medal of the American Numismatic Society, and in 1925 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Week. He de voted himself chiefly to classical subjects, but executed two very striking portraits, "John D. Rockefeller" and "Miss Manship,"
the latter being a study of his daughter, aged three days, which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city. Among his other chief works are the J. P. Morgan memorial in the Metro politan Museum of Art ; the "Infant Hercules" fountain in the courtyard of the American Academy at Rome; "Dancing Girl and Fauns" and "Indian and Pronghorn Antelope" in the Art Institute, Chicago; "Yawning" in the St. Paul Institute; "Centaurs" and "Little Brother" (statuette) in the Detroit Museum of Art ; "Playfulness" in the Minneapolis Institute of Art ; and "Dancer and Gazelles" in the Cleveland museum, also statues in the Luxem bourg, Paris, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1920 he made a portrait bust of John Barrymore.