Duck Girl (Manship)

Duck Girl
Artist Paul Manship
Year 1911
Type Bronze
Dimensions 150 cm × 87.6 cm × 87.0 cm (61 in ×  34 1⁄2 in ×  34 1⁄4 in)
Location Philadelphia, United States
Coordinates 39°56′57″N 75°10′18″W / 39.9493°N 75.1718°W / 39.9493; -75.1718
Owner City of Philadelphia

Duck Girl is a bronze sculpture, by Paul Manship. It is located at Rittenhouse Square, near 18th street and Walnut Street, Philadelphia.[1]

It was installed in Cloverly Park, in 1916, and moved to storage in 1956, and later installed in Rittenhouse Square. [2]

The sculpture won the Widener Gold Medal, from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in 1914.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Duck Girl (1911)". Fairmount Park Art Association. 2004. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Duck Girl, (sculpture)". Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ Susan Rather (1993). Archaism, modernism, and the art of Paul Manship. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-76035-6.

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