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Edwin Dawes

Edwin Munot Dawes (1872 - 1945) was active/lived in California, Nevada, Iowa.  Edwin Dawes is known for Rural landscape and urban view painting.

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EDWIN MINOT DAWES           

The sixth child of a grocery store owner, Edwin Minot Dawes reported in an interview that his mother encouraged him to draw pictures to "keep him out of mischief."  He was born at Boone, Iowa on April 27, 1872.  In 1893 he moved temporarily to Denver, Colorado, where he had difficulty making a living so he took a job making signs for windows.  Some time later he returned to Iowa and in 1896 he left Des Moines for Minneapolis where he joined his father and brother Clarence in the business of manufacturing and wholesale selling of baking powder. City directories show Dawes lived in Minneapolis between 1892 and 1909.  Meanwhile, Edwin continued to paint signs and letter windows.

About the turn of the century a friend persuaded Dawes to visit the Walker Gallery (now the Walker Art Center) in Minneapolis where he was immediately inspired to study painting on his own.  Although D   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7573 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  18
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18 Book References for Edwin Dawes
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Coen, Rena Neumann; William Gerdts, Foreward Minnesota Impressionists 95 Yes
1994 Conforti, Michael (editor) Art and Life on the Upper Mississipi, 1890-1915
(Exhibition catalog)
333 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1976 Coen, Rena Neumann Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914 146 Yes
1939 Ness, Zenobia; Louise Orwig Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years 253 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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