About the Object
Abstracted landscape depicting perhaps a shed or a barn in front of bare trees. The green shade of the grass and pastel palette suggest that it is springtime, when the trees are just about to start budding again. The rounded branches of the trees curve toward one another, almost appearing as bodies in the background. They contrast against the straight lines that define the outbuildings.
Additional Information
In a journal entry dated April 3, 1910, Dawson wrote: “–This spring has been a prolific one. Paintings mainly on wood. Canvas from last year almost run out. The basswood sheets from the crate factory and a little of the Meteer chicken sheathing is still on hand. Some of the paintings are far out and viewers laugh at them, but I am dead serious about every picture…”
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY];
Dr. and Mrs. Max Ellenberg, New York, 1975;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2007-2021;
Sarasota, FL. Ringling Art Museum. Manierre Dawson: Paintings 1909-1913 (November 6-26, 1967); West Palm Beach, Florida. Norton Gallery and School of Art (January 26-February 18, 1968) cat. no. 3.
New York, NY. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. Manierre Dawson: Paintings 1909-1913. April 5-May 1, 1969, cat. no. 5.
New York, NY. Hirschl & Adler Galleries. Buildings, Architecture in American Modernism: An Exhibition Organized for the Benefit of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. October 29-November 29, 1980, p. 24, cat. no. 19, ill. p. 24.
In a journal entry dated April 3, 1910, Dawson wrote: –This spring has been a prolific one. Paintings mainly on wood. Canvas from last year almost run out. The basswood sheets from the crate factory and a little of the Meteer chicken sheathing is still on hand. Some of the paintings are far out and viewers laugh at them, but I am dead serious about every picture…” Reprinted in Abraham Davidson, Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, New York 1999, p. 162.
“RECORD of Paintings & Sculpture.” Manierre Dawson Papers, Reel 2428, Frames 8-11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Davidson, Abraham A. “Two from the Second Decade: Manierre Dawson and John Covert,” Art in America 63, no. 5 (September 1-October975), pp. 50-51, ill. p. 50.
Davidson, Abraham A. Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935. New York: Icon Editions, Harper & Row, 1981, p. 264.
Ploog, Randy J. and Myra Bairstow. Manierre Dawson (1887-1969): A Catalogue Raisonné. Jacksonville, FL: The Three Graces, LLC, 2011, p. 147, ill. p. 147, cat. no. 1910.12.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 152-153, 265, ill. p. 153.
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