A Life in Paint John Manship lived a life shaped by the quiet observations of the American landscape and the people within it. Born in 1927 in the United States, he moved through the decades with a steady hand and a painterly eye. His work was not about grand gestures, but about the way light settles on a surface or how a figure occupies a space. He passed away in Gloucester in 2000, leaving behind a body of work that reflects a sincer…