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James McManus

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James Goodwin McManus (1882 - 1958) was active/lived in Connecticut.  James McManus is known for Portrait, impressionist landscape.

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James Goodwin McManus was a noted American artist and is still considered one of the deans of Connecticut art.  His portraits were done in a classic style (see his 1913 portrait of his father, C. James McManus DDS, at the Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry, Hartford) while his landscapes were done in a more fluid impressionist style.

McManus was born in Hartford in 1882 to C. James McManus, DDS and Eliza (Goodwin) McManus, a descendant of Ozias Goodwin, one of the original founders of the city.  Two of McManus's brothers, Charles and Edward, eventually joined their father in the practice of dentistry. Much younger  than these two brothers, James had no interest in dentistry at all.

At 16, James Goodwin McManus started studying drawing under Charles Noel Flagg at the artist's studio in Cheney Towers (later the Brown Thompson building) on Main Street.  McManus also train   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5642 characters.]  Artist bio

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13 Book References for James McManus
Year Author Title Pages Color
2013 Katlan, Alexander The Hartford Salmagundians: A Connecticut Art Society's Painting Exhibition Records 1929-1953 98 Yes
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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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1966 Connecticut College for Women The Art Colony at Old Lyme 1900-3
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1940 Ball, Charlotte (editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists 790 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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