Manierre Dawson papers
name: label: Creator
content: Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969
label: Names
content: Armory Show (1913: New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Blum, Jerome, 1884-1956
label: Names
content: Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928
label: Names
content: Heap, Jane
label: Names
content: Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
label: Names
content: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
label: Names
content: Watson, Dudley Crafts, 1885-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 64 donated 1969 by Manierre Dawson. Material on reel 2428 donated 1982 by Marianne Gedo, who was doing research on Dawson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, sculptor; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illnois, Ludington, Michigan.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dawsmani
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 64 and 2428 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters; a journal, 1908-1922, 1939-1940; a record of Dawson's painting and sculpture, 1904-1963; and an exhibition catalog.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2428: Dawson's record of paintings and sculpture, 1904-1963; and an exhibition catalog of the Milwaukee Art Society, 1914.