Manierre Dawson American, 1887-1969
81.9 x 60.3 cm
Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Estate of Manierre Dawson.
Madonna is characteristic of Manierre Dawson’s “Cubist Transliterations,” a term coined by art historian Mary Mathews Gedo for the group of figurative paintings Dawson created in 1911-1912. The paintings appropriate subjects from historical European masterworks Dawson would have seen during his six-month European tour in 1910. In the present example, Dawson deftly reinterpreted the central figure of Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks (c. 1491-1508; The National Gallery, London). Employing the formal language gleaned from his civil engineering background in technical draftsmanship and stereometry, the artist produced innovative compositions, pared down to the elemental forms required to remain representational.
Provenance
The artist; to
Estate of the artist; to
Dr. Lewis Obi, Frank McKeown, and Lefferts Mabie, 1978; to
Private collection, 1991 until the present
Exhibitions
Sarasota Art Association, Florida, Manierre Dawson: Painter, Sculptor, 1887-1969, December 13-31, 1975, cat. no. 18Hollis Taggart Galleries, Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, October 1-30, 1999
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, Making Modernism: A Decade with Carles, Dawson, and Maurer, October 8-November 14, 2009
Literature
Randy J. Ploog, "The Chicago Sources of Manierre Dawson's First Abstract Paintings," Blockpoints (annual journal and report, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University)) 3 and 4 (1996/1998), pp. 33, 53, illus. p. 34, fig. 1Henry Adams and Randy J. Ploog, Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999, pl. 22
Randy J. Ploog and Myra Bairstow, Manierre Dawson (1887-1969): A Catalogue Raisonné, Jacksonville, Florida: The Three Graces, LLC in association with Hollis Taggart Galleries, no. 1911.15, p. 177 illus.
This painting is recorded in the Dawson Record under the heading "1911": "Madonna, 32 1/4 x 23 3/4, wood."
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