In St. Paul, Paul Manship attended the Mechanic Arts High School but dropped out to pursue a career as an artist.  Originally wanting to be a painter, he found that he was color-blind and decided to pursue sculpture instead.  His studies brought him to the St. Paul School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Art Students League in New York.  While in New York he was under the tutelage of Solon Borglum, and together they dissected horses and dogs to gain an understanding of animal anatomy.  At the young age of 23, Manship was awarded a fellowship to study for three years at the Academy in Rome.  It was in Rome that he discovered archaic and classical Greek sculpture that would influence his art for the rest of his career.  Manship was more interested in the structure of a face than the surface details, following the stylization of ancient Greek and Egyptian sculpture.  He is perhaps most famous for his work Prometheus, the golden sculpture located in Rockefeller Plaza.  In the 1940s, more modern art dominated the American scene; Manship's work fell out of favor as it was seen to be more academic.  Manship won nearly every existing award for sculpture during his lifetime.  He died in New York in 1966, and left over 125 of his sculptures to the Minnesota Museum of American Art.