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Manierre Dawson at the Metropolitan Museum is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

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The Daily Pic: Chicago painter Manierre Dawson launched into modern art before almost anyone else.

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(Gift of Myra Bairstow and Lewis J. Obi, M.D., 2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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I must admit that I’d never heard of the Chicago painter Manierre Dawson before seeing this picture at the Met the other day. It’s called “The Meeting (The Three Graces)" and is dated 1912 – a date that makes Dawson one of the very first American modernists.

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