
Art Institute of Chicago
Mrs. Darrow
Manierre Dawson · 1911
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Anderson Gallery, 1911.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, Apr. 1914.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, “International Show,” 1945, cat. 75.
- Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art, “Manierre Dawson Paintings 1909–1913,” Nov. 6–26 1967, cat. 9, pp. 9, 11 (ill.); Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, Jan. 26–Feb. 18, 1968.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “Art in Illinois, in Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial,” June 15–Sept. 8, 1968.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Manierre Dawson (1887–1969): A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting,” Nov. 13, 1976–Jan. 2, 1977; University of Indiana Art Museum, Jan. 18–Feb. 20, 1977; and University of Maryland Art Gallery, Mar. 29–May 1, 1977.
- Grand Rapids Art Museum, “Pioneers: Early 20th Century Art from Midwestern Museums,” Sept. 17–Nov. 1, 1981, cat. 8 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- “Appendix 1: Transcription of Manierre Dawson’s Journal, 1908––40,” entries for February 12 and April 2, 1911, in Henry Adams and Randy J. Ploog, Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, exh. cat. (Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999), p. 170.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967–1968, p. 23.
- Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished, 1971), p. 26, cat. 118D.
- Mary Mathews Gedo, “Modernizing the Masters: Manierre Dawson’s Cubist Transliterations,” Arts Magazine, 55, no. 8 (April 1981), p. 138, 140, 142, ill., fig. 12.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 44, cat. 2 (ill.).
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