Paul Manship

Figures of Night (Two Male Figures from No. 385 Flying with Clouds), ca. 1940

Gilt Bronze

A bronze maquette from the artist’s study for the four allegorical figures, representing Morning, Day, Evening, and Night, which were created for the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair as hour markers in a large sundial and were located in a pool in front of the Time and Fates of Man exhibit.

The two male figures in this sculpture accompanied the female allegorical figure of Night flying through the moonlit sky. The original plaster composition models used at the World’s Fair in 1939-1940 were destroyed, but Paul Manship made smaller bronze casts in the 1940s of elements of the Moods of Time which he kept for himself.