Dryad is a fragment of Centaur and Dryad (MMA 14.61) and is hollow in the back. Part of the centaur's right hand can be seen under the dryad's right breast. Her right arm is missing just below the shoulder and her legs have been truncated, the left one at midthigh and the right one below the knee. Dryad was bequeathed to The Met by the widow of former director Edward Robinson.
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Title:Dryad
Artist:Paul Manship (American, St. Paul, Minnesota 1885–1966 New York)
Date:1913; cast probably 1916–17
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:12 1/4 in. × 6 1/4 in. × 4 in. (31.1 × 15.9 × 10.2 cm)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Gift of Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952
Accession Number:52.126.5
Marking: Foundry mark (back): R.B.W. [Roman Bronze Works]
Mrs. Edward Robinson, New York (until d. 1952; her bequest to MMA)
New York. National Arts Club. "Paul Manship Memorial Exhibition," May 10–24, 1966, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Art of Paul Manship," June 11–September 1, 1991, not in catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Human Figure in Transition, 1900–1945: American Sculpture from the Museum's Collection," April 15–September 28, 1997, extended to March 29, 1998, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Subjects and Symbols in American Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection," April 11–August 20, 2000, no catalogue.
Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 151.
Lowery Stokes Sims. The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Jacksonville Art Museum. New York, 1984, p. 16.
Grace Glueck. "Of American Sculptors and the Human Figure." New York Times (June 6, 1997), p. C22.
Joan M. Marter inAmerican Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, p. 750, no. 376, ill.
Paul Manship (American, St. Paul, Minnesota 1885–1966 New York)
1927
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