Vivian St. George and Her Dog
Paul Howard Manship
American Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
This sculpture of a young girl, posed as the young goddess Diana with her dog and bow and arrows, demonstrates how Paul Manship sought to meld ideal form inspired by classical Greek and Roman sculpture with a distinctly modern simplicity. He exercised careful control in forming the regularized volumes and polished surface, and added a touch of delicacy with the gilt detailing on the costume and hair. Vivian St. George was the only child of the Irish painter Sir William Orpen and the married American heiress Evelyn St. George. Manship received the portrait commission through his friend the American painter John Singer Sargent, with whom he lived briefly in London in the early 1920s.
MEDIUM
Bronze, parcel gilt
DATES
1924
DIMENSIONS
43 1/2 × 24 × 16 in. (110.5 × 61 × 40.6 cm)
mount: 44 × 23 × 14 in. (111.8 × 58.4 × 35.6 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2008.68
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the American Art Council and Dick S. Ramsay Fund
PROVENANCE
1924, commissioned from the artist by Evelyn Baker St. George of London, England; between 1924 and 1950, provenance not yet documented; before 1950, acquired by Basil Bloomer of London; 1950, inherited from Basil Bloomer by Kathleen Mary Bloomer Marshall of Exford, England; 2006, inherited from Kathleen Mary Bloomer Marshall by Basil Charles Marshall; December 11, 2008, purchased from Basil Charles Marshall at Sotheby's New York, by the Brooklyn Museum.
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MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
CAPTION
Paul Howard Manship (American, 1885–1966). Vivian St. George and Her Dog, 1924. Bronze, parcel gilt, 43 1/2 × 24 × 16 in. (110.5 × 61 × 40.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the American Art Council and Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2008.68. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2008.68_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2008.68_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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