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“Appendix 1: Transcription of Manierre Dawson’s Journal, 1908––40,” entries for February 12 and April 2, 1911, in Henry Adams and Randy J. Ploog, Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art, exh. cat. (Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999), p. 170.
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1967–1968, p. 23.
Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished, 1971), p. 26, cat. 118D.
Mary Mathews Gedo, “Modernizing the Masters: Manierre Dawson’s Cubist Transliterations,” Arts Magazine, 55, no. 8 (April 1981), p. 138, 140, 142, ill., fig. 12.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 44, cat. 2 (ill.).
New York, Anderson Gallery, 1911.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Apr. 1914.
Milwaukee Art Institute, “International Show,” 1945, cat. 75.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art, “Manierre Dawson Paintings 1909–1913,” Nov. 6–26 1967, cat. 9, pp. 9, 11 (ill.); Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, Jan. 26–Feb. 18, 1968.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Art in Illinois, in Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial,” June 15–Sept. 8, 1968.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Manierre Dawson (1887–1969): A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting,” Nov. 13, 1976–Jan. 2, 1977; University of Indiana Art Museum, Jan. 18–Feb. 20, 1977; and University of Maryland Art Gallery, Mar. 29–May 1, 1977.
Grand Rapids Art Museum, “Pioneers: Early 20th Century Art from Midwestern Museums,” Sept. 17–Nov. 1, 1981, cat. 8 (ill.).
Given by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.
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