New York. 1891 - 1930
Modernist landscape, figure and still life painting, drawing
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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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New York, Ohio / England. 1891 - 1948
Precisionist architectural views and still-life painting
New York. 1882 - 1952
Mod figure-still life, non-ob
New York, Vermont / Spain. 1920 - 2011
Surreal genre and figure painting-social commentary
New York / Russian Federation, England, France. 1881/86 - 1961
Modernist female portrait, figure, and landscape painting
New York / Germany. 1888 - 1963
Modernist, abstract painting, photography
California, Illinois, Iowa. 1886 - 1959
Landscape, genre and still life painting
New York. 1905 - 1987
Surreal landscape-figures, mural
New York / Italy. 1840 - 1928
Landscape, architecture and portrait painting
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. 1870 - 1937
Modernist-leaning landscape, portrait and abstract painting
New York, Ohio. 1902 - 1988
City genre, street scenes and figure painting, graphic design
New York, New Hampshire. 1851 - 1938
Tonalist female figure, idealized portrait
New York. 1901 - 1973
Precise urbanscape, genre, surreal
New York / Egypt. 1906 - 1956
Social-surreal streetscape, non ob, teacher
Illinois, Vermont / France. 1866 - 1952
Impressionist landscape, figure and portrait painting, etching
New York, Missouri. 1899 - 1985
Modernist sea-views and non-objective painting, graphics
New York. 1880 - 1946
Abstract botanic landscape painting
New York, Maine, California. 1887 - 1968
Modernist landscape, figure and genre painting
New York, North Dakota. 1895 - 1942
Stone figure sculpture, wood carving
Illinois / France. 1885 - 1956
Sculpture, non ob woodcuts, painting
New York, Virginia. 1903 - 1988
African-American figure and genre painting
California, New York / France. 1890 - 1973
Synchromist and other modernist painting, landscape, still life
New York. 1892 - 1964
Abstraction, mod-real imagery
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France. 1884 - 1958
Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
New York, Ontario / Canada. 1906 - 1978
Structurescape, non-ob, marine painting
Massachusetts, New Hampshire. 1829 - 1905
Lush still life, portrait and landscape painting
Illinois, Minnesota / France, Russian Federation. 1889 - 1963
Figure-landscape, still life and genre painting
Connecticut. 1904 - 1999
Drawing, nude figure, satirical genre, etching
New York. 1905 - 1975
Abstraction, geometric, sculpture
Pennsylvania. 1882 - 1952
Abstraction and figure painting, flower studies
Maine. 1877 - 1943
Modernist sea-land imagery, mountain, still-life and portrait painting