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Playing Around with Visual Editor[edit]

Cycle of Life (detail) by Paul Manship

Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 – January 28, 1966) was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is well known for his large public commissions, including the iconic Prometheus in Rockefeller Center.

Manship gained notice early in his career for rejecting the Beaux Arts movement and preferring linear compositions with a flowing simplicity. Additionally, he shared a summer home in Plainfield, New Hampshire, part of the Cornish Art Colony, with William Zorach for a number of years. Other members of the highly social colony were also contemporary artists.[2]

My Willa Cather Test Text[edit]

Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] December 7, 1873[2] – April 24, 1947[3]) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.

Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years,[4] supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence in New Brunswick, Canada[2].

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Willa Cather" in The American Heritage Dictionary.
  2. ^ a b Woodress, James (1987). Willa Cather: A Literary Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 516. ISBN 0803247346.
  3. ^ "Willa Cather's Biography." Willa Cather Foundation website. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Milfred R. Bennet. Willa Cather in Pittsburgh. Prairie Schooner, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 1959), pp. 64-76. Retrieved December 07, 2013.