Mankind Figure Maiden - NY, NY
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Mankind Figure Maiden is located to the right of the stairway descending from the Channel Gardens into the Sunken Plaza in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
Waymark Code: WMQ8E9
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2016
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The larger than life 8' high bronze Mankind Figure Maiden was created by Paul Manship and cast at the Roman Bronze Works in 1934. Originally the figure, along with its companion piece Mankind Figure Youth, was gilded and installed flanking the statue of Prometheus in the Sunken Plaza of Rockefeller Center. Prometheus, in Greek mythology, is credited with creating the first man and woman from clay.
Manship was not happy with the placement and the statues were removed and stored for many yeas on the roof of the British Empire Building. In 1983, the gilding was removed and both figures were re-installed in their current location on platforms flanking the stairway between the Channel Gardens and the Sunken Plaza.
The heroic-size Mankind Figure Maiden is nude young woman. She is standing next to imaginative over-sized vegetation that is meant to evoke the foliage of the Garden of Eden. She has her right leg bent up at the knee and holds a cloth in her left hand that is draped over her lower torso, upper right thigh, and left leg.
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Mankind Figure Maiden
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Paul Manship
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1934
Materials used: Bronze
Location: Rockefeller Center NY, NY
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