Manierre Dawson
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Manierre Dawson (1887 - 1969) was an abstract artist from Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Dawson had almost no formal training in art outside of his education as a civil engineer at the Armour Institute of Technology. He worked as a draftsman for an architectural firm after graduation in 1909. In 1910, he toured Europe, soaking up the new art atmosphere and painting abstract works of his own. Although invited to have his work in the Armory Show of 1913, his only contribution to it came when the show came to Chicago and installed his Wharf under Mountain. In 1913, after the Armory Show had been in Chicago, "Walter Pach extended Dawson an invitation from Arthur B. Davies to exhibit with fourteen of the most advanced artists in the U.S. After The Fourteen, as the exhibition became know, traveled to five American cities, Manierre Dawson would exhibit his artwork only three more times before being rediscovered in 1963" (Bates, Geoffrey, 2006, "Manierre Dawson: An Artist Out of Bounds," The Living Museum, 68(1): 8-13). Unable to make a go of painting as a stable source of income, he became a farmer, painting and sculpting in the slack seasons. Only in the 1960s did his reputation as an innovator in American abstract art develop. He died in Sarasota, Florida, where he had retired after being a successful farmer in Michigan.
[edit] Bibliography
- Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, Dr. Randy Ploog, essayists Dr. Henry Adams (Author), Stephanie Salomon (Editor).
- Manierre Dawson, paintings, 1910-1914: March 28-April 22, 1981. , Manierre Dawson, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery.
- Manierre Dawson: Paintings 1909-1913 : April 5-May 1, 1969, Manierre Dawson, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery.
- "Manierre Dawson: A Fix on The Phantoms of The Imagination,", Kenneth R. Hey, Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1974) , pp. 7-12.
- The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940, Sue A. Prince.
[edit] Further reading
- Dr. Randy J. Ploog and Dr. Henry Adams (2003). Manierre Dawson: New Revelations. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. ISBN 0-9705723-7-9.
- Dr. Henry Adams and Dr. Randy J. Ploog (1999). Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. ASIN B000BRPBI8.
