Object Details
Creator
Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969
Subject
Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen)
Heap, Jane
Stein, Gertrude
Pach, Walter
Watson, Dudley Crafts
Blum, Jerome
Armory Show (1913: New York, N.Y.)
Place of publication, production, or execution
Other
Physical Description
30 Items, (on 2 microfilm reels)
Access Note / Rights
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary
Letters; a journal, 1908-1922, 1939-1940; a record of Dawson's painting and sculpture, 1904-1963; and an exhibition catalog.
REEL 64: Letters received including, 11 from Walter Pach of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 7 from Dudley Crafts Watson as Director of the Milwaukee Art Society, and letters from Jerome Blum, from Chicago journalist Hi Simousy, and from G. G. Wing, president of the Ludington State Bank, for which Dawson painted a mural. Also included is a xerox of a journal, 1908-1922, 1939-1940, in which Dawson comments on: work as a draftman for Holabird and Roche, Chicago, and other architectural firms, meetings with Gertrude Stein, Arthur Davies, Dudley Watson and Walter Pach; the Armory Show, the Montross Gallery Show and the subsequent tour; meetings with Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. Entries after 1914 record domestic affairs on Dawson's farm in Ludington, with intermittent comments on his painting and sculpture.
REEL 2428: Dawson's record of paintings and sculpture, 1904-1963; and an exhibition catalog of the Milwaukee Art Society, 1914.
Citation
Manierre Dawson papers, 1904-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms
35mm microfilm reels 64 and 2428 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Biography Note
Painter, sculptor; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illnois, Ludington, Michigan.
Language Note
English .
Provenance
Material on reel 64 donated 1969 by Manierre Dawson. Material on reel 2428 donated 1982 by Marianne Gedo, who was doing research on Dawson.
Location Note
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Record number
(DSI-AAA_CollID)7392
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209549
AAA_collcode_dawsmani
Theme
Diaries
Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
Lives of artists
Data Source
Archives of American Art
Topic
Art, American
Theme
Diaries
Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
Lives of artists
Record ID
AAADCD_coll_209549