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Manierre Dawson

Manierre Dawson (1887 - 1969) was active/lived in Illinois, Michigan.  Manierre Dawson is 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 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 engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1909, when he began working for Holabird and Ro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10565 characters.]  Artist bio

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