Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- In 1926, Paul Manship was selected to participate in an international competition to design the coinage of the Irish Free State. Dublin-born poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) had proposed a general motif of animals associated with Irish life, including a hen, ram, salmon, hare, wolfhound, wood duck, harp, and bull’s head. Manship lost the competition to English sculptor Percy Metcalfe, but graciously acknowledged that, had he been on the jury, he would have made the same decision. Manship’s design here is for the shilling, or twelve pence.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Paul Manship, born St. Paul, MN 1885-died New York City 1966
- Date
- 1927
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) diam.
- Type
- Sculpture-Medal-Sample
