"Across the Park,"
Middleton Manigault, 1910. Oil on canvas.
Middleton
Manigault:
NEW YORK CITY - After a tour with three museum venues, a
selection of works by the artist Edward Middleton Manigault
(1887-1922) returns to Hollis Taggart Galleries in "Middleton
Manigault: ," on view through July 25. Fourteen works will be
featured by this artistic pioneer.
Manigault's contributions to the history of Modernism in this
country had been largely overlooked, in part due to his early
death and his reclusive lifestyle. "Middleton Manigault:
Visionary, Modernist" traveled to four locations: Columbus Museum
of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City,
May 21-July 19, 2002; University Gallery, University of Delaware,
Newark, Del.; and Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C.
This show was the first major exhibition to present the eclectic,
highly personal creations of this previously neglected modernist,
with 50 rarely exhibited works, including oil paintings,
watercolors, pastels, etchings, wood sculpture, ceramics and
showcase masterpieces loaned from both public and private
collections across the United States and Canada.
As exemplified by this collection of paintings and watercolors
dating from 1910 to 1921, Manigault's career was characterized by
continual experimentation. His works contain a remarkable
decorative visual sense which is combined with a unique
imaginative spirit.
In 1938, some 16 years after Manigault's death, the American
artist Kenneth Hayes Miller praised his one-time pupil, calling
Manigault "an original personality" and saying his works "have
meaning apart from the conventional attributes of success."
Miller firmly believed that Manigault's talent would be "judged
itself apart, when time gets around to it."
The gallery is at 48 East 73rd Street. For information,
212-628-4000.
