Paul Howard Manship 1885-1966

Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, nos. 378 and 384, pp. 15, 17, 18, 180, 181
Minnesota Museum of Art, Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1985, pp. 120-23
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 163-65

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Embodying Paul Manship’s interest in the theme of the passage of time, the present figures of Evening and Night are reductions of two of the four figures representing the Moods of Time that Manship created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair.  The monumental versions of Morning, Day, Evening and Night were mounted in a reflecting pool along the central promenade of the fairgrounds, adjacent to the artist’s immense Time and Fates Sundial. Manship wrote of these two figures: “…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. …Evening Symbolizes inertia–that time of inactivity before the movement of night begins, and the figure is falling asleep, with the shadows of evening over it” (Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 164).