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

Manierre-ism

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

Blake Gopnik

Updated Jul. 11, 2017 9:38PM ET / Published Jul. 21, 2013 2:33PM ET 

(Gift of Myra Bairstow and Lewis J. Obi, M.D., 2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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. He’d done a tour of Europe in 1910, but apparently the roots of his geometrical style don’t depend on Picasso. It seems he was offered a spot in the great Armory Show, but turned it down – and then went on to buy a Duchamp that he saw in it. I’m not saying Dawson’s up there with Cubism’s founders, but even coming close, as early as he did, makes him deserve a name check.

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