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If you’re familiar with the shiny gold sculpture of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center, then you know Paul Manship’s work. Personally, I think I prefer this humble black bear. Paul Manship with his sculpture Black Bear, 1939 Mar. / Walter J. Russell, photographer. Sculptors Guild records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

If you’re familiar with the shiny gold sculpture of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center, then you know Paul Manship’s work. Personally, I think I prefer this humble black bear.

Paul Manship with his sculpture Black Bear, 1939 Mar. / Walter J. Russell, photographer. Sculptors Guild records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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