Edward Middleton Manigault
Edward Middleton Manigault (June 14, 1887 – August 31, 1922) was a Canadian-born American Modernist painter.[1]
Biography
Manigault was born in London, Ontario, on June 14, 1887.[2] His parents were Americans originally from South Carolina who had settled in London, Ontario after the Civil War.[2][1] Encouraged in art from an early age, he was commissioned at the age of 18 by the city of London to make renderings of public buildings for reproduction as postcards (examples of his early work are in Museum London, Ontario).[3][4]
Manigault moved to
Despite being emotionally unstable and prone to episodes of depression, Manigault volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver with the British Expeditionary Force in 1915, displaying his spontaneity in marrying Gertrude Buffington Phillips just two days before he shipped out, whereupon he served as an ambulance driver in Flanders from April to November 1915.[2][5] In November, he received a medical discharge after being exposed to mustard gas. Having suffered a nervous breakdown, he was deemed “incapacitated for service", and his health would continue to decline for the remainder of his life.[4][5]
Back in the United States, he spent some time living in the utopian community of
Style
Manigault worked in a wide range of styles following the war, experimenting in abstract and Cubist styles. He found these styles unsatisfying and destroyed most of his paintings.
Paintings
Manigault is believed to have destroyed as many as two hundred of his paintings; consequently, few paintings by Manigault survive.
Art
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River Scene (A Flotilla on the Hudson), 1904
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Procession (1911)
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Christ Appearing to Mary (1910)
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The Source (1914)
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Still Life with Lemons (1916)
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Still Life with Flowers (1918)
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Vorticist Landscape (War Impressions) (c. 1916)
References
- ^ a b c d Murray 2001, p. 102-103.
- ^ ISBN 0-8109-1811-0.
- ^ a b "Collection". collection.museumlondon.ca. Museum London, London, Ontario. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ptach, Dave (Summer 2005), "Fellowship Parkway Artist Fasted for Sake of Vision", Echo Park Historical Society News, archived from the original on November 29, 2014, retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Middleton Manigault". The Johnson Collection, LLC. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
- ^ "Pioneers of modern art in America. : From an exhibition of the Whitney museum of American art. / Organized by Hermon More, with introduction and biographical notes by Lloyd Goodrich. Traveling exhibition selection circulated by the American federation of arts". catalog.hathitrust.org. Whitney Museum of American art. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
Bibliography
- Murray, Joan (2001). The Birth of the Modern: Post-Impressionism in Canadian Art, 1900-1920. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- Beth Venn; Nannette Maciejunes; Angela Mack (2001). Middleton Manigault: Visionary Modernist. New York: ISBN 0-9705723-5-2.
External links
- Media related to Edward Middleton Manigault at Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Middleton Manigault Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries Archived 2016-12-18 at the Wayback Machine