TitleCharleston IV (Dancing Child)
Artist
Paul Manship
(1885 - 1966)
Datebefore 1966
MediumGilded plaster
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2008.10
Label TextDancing Child is one of a group of four related figures that Manship made during the years 1926-1927 in preparation for creating bronze finials for the balcony railing in the dining room of his home on East 72nd street in Manhattan. The finished bronzes are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Manship, who is best remembered for his Prometheus fountain at the Rockefeller Center skating rink, was influenced in spirit and form by Indian sculpture of the dancing child Balakrishna, and chose to use the characteristic poses of the dance the Charleston for his figures. The Charleston was the dance craze of the 1920s when the piece was conceived.
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