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Meditation

1913
Not on view
Dawson completed this Cubist-inspired painting the same year that another of his abstractions was included in the Chicago venue of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show). Showing in the company of such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Wassily Kandinsky, who were "breaking open the avenues of freedom of expression," validated his own work. As he wrote in his journal: "I had thought of myself as an anomaly and had to defend myself, many times, as not crazy; [but] here now…many artists are…showing these very inventive departures from the academies. These are without question the most exciting days of my life."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Meditation
  • Artist: Manierre Dawson (American, 1887–1969)
  • Date: 1913
  • Medium: Oil on wood panel
  • Dimensions: 16 in. × 11 7/8 in. (40.6 × 30.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Peter Lockwood, in memory of his grandfather, the artist, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.479
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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