Manierre Dawson (1887-1969): A Catalogue Raisonné
2011Randy J. Ploog, Myra Bairstow and Ani Boyajian
334 pages (color)
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1887 Chicago, Illinois - 1969. Known for: Non-objective painter, sculptor, architectural drawing.
Chicago-born Manierre Dawson (1887-1969) was a major early American modernist painter — perhaps the Windy City's most progressive spirit. It is generally believed that this civil engineer and... Read full biography
Chicago-born Manierre Dawson (1887-1969) was a major early American modernist painter — perhaps the Windy City's most progressive spirit. It is generally believed that this civil engineer and self-taught artist achieved a non-objective abstraction with no knowledge of the activities of Kandinsky,... Read full biography
Chicago-born Manierre Dawson (1887-1969) was a major early American modernist painter — perhaps the Windy City's most progressive spirit. It is generally believed that this civil engineer and self-taught artist achieved a non-objective abstraction with no knowledge of the activities of Kandinsky, whose work Dawson's resembles. He began painting in 1903 or 1904: nature studies that recall Whistler's "nocturnes" (Gedo, 1977). By 1906, he painted figural compositions, such as Figures on Pale Blue,... Read full biography
Chicago-born Manierre Dawson (1887-1969) was a major early American modernist painter — perhaps the Windy City's most progressive spirit. It is generally believed that this civil engineer and self-taught artist achieved a non-objective abstraction with no knowledge of the activities of Kandinsky, whose work Dawson's resembles. He began painting in 1903 or 1904: nature studies that recall Whistler's "nocturnes" (Gedo, 1977). By 1906, he painted figural compositions, such as Figures on Pale Blue, that show the obvious influence of Arthur B. Davies. Aspidistra, from the same year, is a minimalist still-life, painted with great precision. The organic curves of the plant have an Art Nouveau elegance. In contrast, Six Flowers in a Vase, painted... Read full biography
Chicago-born Manierre Dawson (1887-1969) was a major early American modernist painter — perhaps the Windy City's most progressive spirit. It is generally believed that this civil engineer and self-taught artist achieved a non-objective abstraction with no knowledge of the activities of Kandinsky, whose work Dawson's resembles. He began painting in 1903 or 1904: nature studies that recall Whistler's "nocturnes" (Gedo, 1977). By 1906, he painted figural compositions, such as Figures on Pale Blue, that show the obvious influence of Arthur B. Davies. Aspidistra, from the same year, is a minimalist still-life, painted with great precision. The organic curves of the plant have an Art Nouveau elegance. In contrast, Six Flowers in a Vase, painted in 1908, is more two-dimensional. The artist stated that after graduating in civil engi... Read full biography
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Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
2008
(Exhibition catalog)Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries)120 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesCelebrating 25 Years Hollis Taggart Galleries
2005
(Exhibition catalog)Bullaudy, Vivian (Essay)0 pages (color)Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesIn The Natural State: The Nude in the Art of Natalie Van Vleck
2004
(Exhibition catalog)Chabot, Marc14 pages (color)Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
2004
(Exhibition catalog)Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor)176 pages (color)Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro)0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesModern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Agee, William C24 pagesThe American Fauves: The Color of Modernism
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Gerdts, William H; Hollis Taggart159 pages (color)American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996Hopps, Walter (others)320 pages (color)Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)The Old Guard and Avant-Garde Modernism in Chicago 1910-1940
1990Prince, Sue Ann304 pages (color)American Modernism
1989Fahlman, Betsy80 pages (color)The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988Columbus Museum of Art271 pages (color)The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987Saint Louis Art Museum225 pages (color)American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984Baigell, Mathew420 pagesThe Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Marlor, Clark S600 pagesEarly American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981Davidson, Abraham A324 pages (color)Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Hirschl & Adler Galleries96 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesAmerican Imagination and Symbolist Painting
1979
(Exhibition catalog)Eldredge, Charles C176 pages (color)Synchromism American Color Abstraction 1910-1925
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Levin, Gail144 pages (color)Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer189 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)