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Night

Paul Manship American
1938
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Throughout his career Manship explored the theme of the passage of time in his work. Night is a statuette related to the sculptor’s outdoor commission for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. A monumental version of Night, along with its companion groups Evening, Morning, and Day, collectively titled the Moods of Time, were installed in a reflecting pool near Manship’s Time and the Fates Sundial. He commented that Night "with the moon as its symbol, suggests the movement of the world of dreams and intangible things. The little figures accompanying the major nude figure of Night typify those things that reach out into space."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Night
  • Artist: Paul Manship (American, St. Paul, Minnesota 1885–1966 New York)
  • Date: 1938
  • Medium: Bronze, parcel gilt
  • Dimensions: 16 × 24 × 9 in. (40.6 × 61 × 22.9 cm)
  • Classification: Sculpture
  • Credit Line: Gift of Don and Helen Douglass, Douglass Foundation, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2018
  • Object Number: 2018.923.2
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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