Gates
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  Paul Manship Wolf and Lamb 1952 from the William Church Osborn Memorial Playground Gateway bronze H 25 1/2 x W 44 1/2 X D 6 in. |
These two sculptures became part of gates to a playground in Central Park in New York City. The gates were commissioned to honor a man named William Church Osborn who was president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. When Osborn died, a group of his friends decided to make something in his honor for the playground next to the museum. They knew Paul Manship had done other memorial sculpture, so they asked him for his ideas. Since the memorial was for a playground, Manship made animal scenes from Aesop's Fables part of a plan for playground gates. The fables shown in these sections of the gates are The Tortoise and the Hare and The Wolf and the Lamb. Each animal is like a sculpture all by itself. You can see everything no matter which side of the gates you are looking at. See the whole gateway.
