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Family portraits are a great way to say "we love you" on Father's Day!
Sculptor Paul Manship was the country's most famous exponent of Art Deco. He embraced archaic vocabularies of Greek, Roman, and Indian art to create decorative, stylized, Neoclassical works. The statue in the fountain in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, Prometheus (1933), is one of his most famous works.
In this portrait, he and his family posed in front of one of his classically inspired works, Dancer and Gazelles, which is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection.
Pictured top: Paul Manship and family, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Peter A. Juley and Son Collection.
Source: Joan Stahl. American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995).
Pictured bottom: Paul Manship, 1885–1966, Dancer and Gazelles, 1916, bronze, 32 1/2 x 33 x 10 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist.