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Birth
1887 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
1969
Lived/Active
Illinois/Michigan
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non-objective painter, sculptor, architectural drawing
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New York Armory Show of 1913
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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 < (showing 500 of 10582 characters). |
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