Woman in Brown
Primary
Manierre Dawson
(Chicago, Illinois, 1887–Ludington, Michigan, 1969)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Datecirca 1912
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 41 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (105.4 x 85.1 cm)
Canvas: 36 1/4 x 28 1/8 in. (92 x 71.4 cm)
Canvas: 36 1/4 x 28 1/8 in. (92 x 71.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Michener Acquisitions Fund, P1969.12.1
Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object numberP1969.12.1
On View
On viewLocations
- exhibition BMA, Gallery, B3 - Huntington Gallery
Collection Highlight
In Woman In Brown, Manierre Dawson responds—and pays homage—to European modernism in his version of Picasso's legendary portrait, Gertrude Stein, of 1906. The monochromatic brown palette and fragmentation of the subject alludes to experiments of the Paris Cubists as much as it does Cézanne's late work. Yet, Dawson's painting exhibits an independent American approach to problems of subject, contour and volume in pictorial construction.
