About the Artwork
The Flight of Night
1916
Paul Manship
1885-1966
American
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 13 inches (33 cm) Overall (base): 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (11.4 × 11.4 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Parker
16.22
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Markings
Signed and dated, on sphere: Paul Manship c 1916
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Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Parker
1916-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 11, 2-3 (November-December 1912): pp. 21-22 (ill.).
Murtha, Edwin. Paul Manship. New York, 1957, p. 150, no. 80 (fig. 2).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Paul Manship, The Flight of Night, 1916, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Parker, 16.22.
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