Gifted, as he is, with an exceptional sense of style, the young American
sculptor, Paul Manship, has well deserved the prizes and praises which
have been awarded him. He has a genius for the construction of forms
which are highly generalized without thereby losing compactness and
vivacity. His power in creating designs that are alive is hardly more
original and personal than his use of antique and exotic formulae in
rendering details such as hair, eyes and draperies. For, though these
conventions are borrowed from archaic Greek, Assyrian, and Japanese
sculpture, they are in Manship’s art perfectly assimilated and put to
novel uses full of fresh spirit and often touched with an elfish humor.
[Plaque, La Guerre. Hubert Ponscarme, 1827-1903]