Please provide the contact name and number of a representative of the
artist, Ruane Manning. A search of the internet provided hundreds of
sites selling his prints but nothing else.

xtralia --

Ruane Manning's prints and posters are published, marketed and
distributed by Scafa Art, which is a unit of The Art Publishing Group.
 Contact information for Scafa Art is:

165 Chubb Avenue
Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071 USA
Toll Free 800-760-3058
201-842-8500
Fax: 201-842-8546 
scafa@theartpublishinggroup.com

Scafa Art: Contact Information
http://www.scafa.com/sacontact.html


Here is a link to the Scafa Art website's excerpts from its roster of
artists that pertains to Ruane Manning:
Scafa.com: Ruane Manning
http://www.scafa.com/manning.html

Contact information for the parent company, The Art Publishing Group, is:

The Art Publishing Group
276 Fifth Avenue - Suite 205
New York, NY 10001
United States
Tel: 201 842 8500 109
Web Site: www.theartpublishinggroup.com
Email: j_bridgewater@hotmail.com
Fax: 212-779-1807
Contact: John Bridgewater


The Art Publishing Group describes itself as follows:

"The Art Publishing Group is a unique conglomeration of three major
brands: Scafa Art , ModernArt Editions and FrontLine Art Publishing,
each with its own focus and direction.
Scafa Art has the widest assortment of images, in the industry,
targeted for the volume framer encompassing wildlife, florals,
landscapes, ethnic and religious art."
Art Affairs: The Art Publishing Group
http://www.artaffairs.com/showcase.asp?ID=18251&L=4


Here is a link to the home page of Scafa Art, at which it describes
itself as "a leading publisher of quality, standard size images
available in a wide variety of categories, value priced to meet the
print needs of the mass market."  From this page you can link to much
other information about the publisher.
Scafa Art
http://www.scafa.com/

Finally, here is a link to the home page of The Art Publishing Group:
The Art Publishing Group
http://www.theartpublishinggroup.com/


Search Strategy:

After confirming your observation that a Google search using the terms
"ruane manning" returned many thousands of hits for sites offering his
prints at retail, I tried various searches trying to weed out most of
these, including:

"ruane manning" -prints -posters
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22ruane+manning%22+%2Dprints+%2Dposters

"ruane manning" artist
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22ruane+manning%22+artist

"ruane manning" artist contact represented
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22ruane+manning%22+artist+contact+represented


This last search led me to a site that associated the artist's name with Scafa Art:
Rebecca's Crafts (about 5/8 down the page)
http://www.rebeccascrafts.com/category.html?UCIDs=354846

I then conducted some searches aimed at finding more information about
Scafa Art, which resulted in the information I have provided above.


I am confident that this is the information you are seeking, and I
happy to have been able to provide it to you promptly.  If anything is
unclear, please ask for clarification before rating this answer.

markj-ga

This answer was clear, concise and contained exactly the information I
required. It even offered suggestions as to how I might have conducted
a better search myself which will be helpful in the future I'm sure.
The response time was very quick. Thank you very much!

xtralia --

Thanks much for the rating and the kind words.

markj-ga