Indian Shooting a Pronghorn Antelope, 1914

  • Paul Manship, American, 1885-1966
  • Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., founded 1899, active 19th-20th century

Bronze

  • Overall: 13 inches (33 cm) Overall (base): 10 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (26 × 21 cm)

Bequest of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

60.64.A

Signed and date, on base behind figure: Paul Manship c 1914

Inscribed, on base behind figure: Roman Bronze Works NY

1960-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Sculpture of Paul Manship. Exh. cat., Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1915, p. 3, no. 7. A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul Manship. Exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1958, p. 10. Bulletin of the DIA 40, 1: pp. 16-17 (ill.). Broder, P.J. Bronzes of the American West. New York, 1973, p. 286 (pl. 340, ill. of another example in MMA). The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1981, p. 27, cat. 2 (ill.). Paul Manship: Changing Tastes in America. Exh. cat., Minnesota Museum of Art. Saint Paul, 1985, p. 136, no. 97 (ill. of another example in the Smithsonian). Tolles, Thayer. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885. New York, 1999, pp. 751-752, no. 377, (ill. of another example in the MMA).

Paul Manship; Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., Indian Shooting a Pronghorn Antelope, 1914, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 60.64.A.