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About this Artist
David McManaway was born in Chicago, IL in 1927. McManaway received his degree from the University of Arkansas, and he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Biographical information courtesy of David Dike Fine Art.
"Best known for wall reliefs he called Jomo Boards, McManaway juxtaposed found objects such as plastic toys, stuffed animals, insects, bones, dime store jewels and other miscellany in stream-of-conscious fashion. McManaway moved to Dallas in 1959 and abandoned painting in favor of assemblage art."
Davenport, Bill. "David McManaway 1927-2010," Glasstire, April 24, 2010.
Of his own work and process, McManaway says, "In the beginning will be an idea or something I respond to and you could even almost say it's somewhat intellectual. Then through the middle part it's catch as catch can, but I've learned to recognize the method in a sense and I've learned to trust my intuitiveness, and that's the way they go together. In the end I may say, well, I have to fix things up and this doesn't quite work. And that finishes them. To me that's the only way to work. Whether you're painting or doing sculpture or what...'Course, the poor sculptor has to plan ahead. Luckily with my little technique I don't have to plan ahead at all."
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DAVID McMANAWAY, courtesy of Moody Gallery, Houston
Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1927
Died: Dallas, Texas, 2010
Education
1953-58 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Grants and Awards
1991 Engelhard Award, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1977 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Solo Exhibitions
2005 “The Gold Watch”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002 “one i at a time revisited: Jim Love and David McManaway”, Pillsbury Peters Fine Art,
Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
1997 “On The Shelf”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1986 Eugene Binder, Dallas, Texas
1979-80 “David McManaway, Works - 20 Years”, Southern Methodist University
Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1976 “David McManaway: Constructions”, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas
1975 “Projects I: David McManaway”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1973 “David McManaway”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1969 “Recent Work”, Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1967 Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1965 “Symbols in Art”, Chandler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Recent Paintings”, Chandler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2014 “Selections from the Legendary Collection of Sonny Burt & Bob Butler”, Talley Dunn
Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 “Homage: Roy Fridge, Jim Love, David McManaway”, Moody Gallery, Houston,
Texas
“35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions”, Curated by Clare Elliot, The Menil
Collection, Houston, Texas
2009 “Serious Play”, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2006 “Shared Vision: Texas Artists Then & Now”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington,
Texas, curated by Paul Rogers Harris (traveling)
2005 “David McManaway and Friends”, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
“Small Matters”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Pairings 2005”, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas“The Natural World”, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
2004 “Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection”, Southern Methodist University, Houston,
Texas
2001 “Artists Collect Art”, The Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Helm Fine Arts Center,
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas
“Behind the Scenes”, NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills, Texas
“Our Crowd Collects”, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas
2000 “25 Years”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Pillsbury Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
1999 “Between Image & Object”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
“Drawings / Prints”, Mulcahy Modern Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1998 “David McManaway, Gary Retherford Recent Work”, Mulcahy Modern Gallery,
Dallas, Texas
“Works on Paper”, Mulcahy Modern Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 “Texas Natural Wonders”, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“In and Out of the Box”, British Petroleum, Houston, Texas; curated by Sally Sprout
“A Curator’s Collection”, Brazos Gallery, Richland Colllege, Dallas, Texas
1996 “Charles T. Williams Retrospective, with Friends”, University of North Texas,
University Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
“Greeting Cards & Gift Papers: Artist Designed”, Lakeside Gallery, Richland College,
Dallas, TX; curated by Paul Rogers Harris
“Assemblage From The Collection”, Menil Gallery, Houston, TX
“Portraits & Self-Portraits: Fact or Fiction”, Brazos Gallery, Richland College,
Dallas, Texas
“Texas Art of the 50’s & 60’s”, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“32 Texas Artists”, University of Texas Health Science Center Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Group Exhibition, State Thomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995 “Tracy Hicks, David McManaway, Patty Sutherland, Alexander Troup: Found Object
Art”, State Thomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 “The Box”, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
“Jim Love and David McManaway”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Uncommon Objects”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Born Again Objects”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
1993 “Museum of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
“Self Contained”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
“Animal Attraction”, The Haggar University Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
“Tie One On”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Personal Attachments”, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas
1992 “Re: Creation/ Re-creation/ Recreation: Art from Found Objects”, Laguna Gloria
Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1991 “Mystery and Intrigue”, Peregrine Gallery-Crescent, Dallas, Texas (curated by
Paul Rogers Harris)
“Texas Selections from the Menil Collection”, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Tx.
1990 “Bitom: Fixture 1989 Interactive Object Emulation”, Jerry Hunt video, 820
Exposition, Dallas, Texas
“McManaway, Komodore, Gummelt”, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
1989 “Objects”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
“A Century of Sculpture in Texas 1889 - 1989”, Archer M. Huntington Gallery,
University of Texas, Austin (traveling to Amarillo Art Center, San Angelo Museum
of Art, El Paso Museum of Art)
1988 “The Poetic Object”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
“Texas Art”, San Francisco Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Zoomorphism”, LTV Tower, Dallas, Texas
“Last Show”, D.W. Co-op Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Toy Show”, The Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
1987 “2D - 3D: A Group Exhibition of 22 Artists Who Make Wall Sculpture”, Frito-Lay, Inc.,Dallas, Texas
“Narrative Images- Folk Art and Related Contemporary Art”, The Crescent Gallery,
Dallas, Texas (traveled to Corpus Christi, Tyler, San Angelo)
“Group Exhibition”, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Found, A Selection: Works by Texas Artists Who Work with Found Materials”,
Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
1986 “The Texas Landscape”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“Comic Relief”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1985 “Tenth Anniversary: Exhibition I”, D.W. Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1984 “Once Upon A Time”, Gateway Gallery mural , commissioned by Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, Texas
“Gallery Group”, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1982 “Things Artists Collect”, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort
Worth, Texas
“Hearts and Flowers”, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
“Fun and Games”, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
1981 “Connell, McManaway, Fisher, Mims”, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1980 “Fifteen from Dallas”, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
1979 “Made in Texas”, Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
“Fire”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1978 “Group Show”, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Cowboys, Indians, Settlers”, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
“Wearable Works”, D.W. Co-op Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Bag Show”, Delta Gallery, Houston, Texas
1977 “Permanent Collection”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
“Gummelt-Love-McManaway”, D.W. Co-op Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1976 “Permanent Collection”, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
“Miniature Show”, D.W. Co-op Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1975 “Artists Make Toys”, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1974 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1973 “1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”, Whitney Museum,
New York, New York
1972 “Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston Invitational”, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Dallas, Texas
“Tatoo Parlor”, David Gallery, Houston, Texas
1971 “Texas Painting and Sculpture”, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
“One i at a Time”, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1970 “Southwest Oklahoma Annual”, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1969 “Human Concern/Personal Torment”, Whitney Museum, New York, New York
“Southwest Oklahoma Annual”, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1968 “Three Man Show: Love, Fridge, McManaway”, Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas,
Texas
1966 “Three Man Show: Love, Fridge, McManaway”, Trinity University, San Antonio,
Texas
1965 “Two-Man Show”, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1964 “The Local Scene”, Haydon Calhoun Galleries, Dallas, Texas
“26th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,
Texas
“New Trends, New Talents”, Henderson College, Conway, Arkansas
1961 “11th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints & Drawings”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,
Texas
“The Art That Broke the Looking Glass”, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Dallas, Texas (catalogue text by Douglas MacAgy)
“The Art of Assemblage”, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts, Dallas, Texas
“South Coast Art Show”, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
1959 “Texas Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture”, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, Texas
“Dallas County Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Selected Public Collections
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Books and Catalogues
2016 Bunch, Robert Craig, The Art of Found Objects, Interviews with Texas Artists, Texas
A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, pp. 2, 5, 54, 57, 76, 166, 193, 195,
196 (reproductions).
2002 one i at a time revisited: Jim Love and David McManaway, introduction and essay
by Edmund P. Pillsbury, Pillsbury Peters Fine Art.
1999 Between Image & Object, introduction by Joan Davidow, essay by Michael Odom,
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas.
1997 Charles T. Williams: Retrospective, With Friends, introduction and essay by Diana
R. Block, University of North Texas Art Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas.
1996 32 Texas Artists, introduction by Jim Edwards, The University of Texas-Houston
Medical School, Houston, Texas.
1994 Born Again Objects, introduction by Joan Davidow, essay by Tom Sale, Arlington
Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas.
1989 A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889 - 1989, text by Patricia Hendricks and
Becky Duval Reese, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
1988 The Poetic Object, text by Jim Edwards, San Antonio Museum of Art, San
Antonio, Texas.
1986 50 Texas Artists, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Ca.
1980 David McManaway Works - 20 Years, text by Ann Livet, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas.
1975 Projects I: David McManaway, text by Robert M. Murdock, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, Texas.
1974 Art in Boxes, Alex Mogelon and Norman Laliberte, Rheinhold, New York, New York.
1973 David McManaway, text by Janet Kutner and Paul Harris, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, Texas.
1971 One i at a time, text by Douglas MacAgy, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas.
Painting & Sculpture: The 20th Century, text by Jerry Bywaters, Martha Utterback,
James Chillman, J., Loren Mozley, Sam B. Cantey, III, Dallas, Texas.
1961 The Art that Broke the Looking-Glass, text by Douglas MacAgy, Dallas Museum
for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, Texas.
Bibliography
Periodicals
Kutner, Janet, “They Chose to Stay”, Now, The Magazine for North Texas, Vol. 1, No. 6,
September 1971, pp. 56-61.
Bonelli, Diana, “Works added to Hirschorn Collection”, SW Art Gallery, February 1973, p. 33.
Pederson, Rena, “Jomoing for Art’s Sake”, Scene Magazine, August 4, 1973, pp. 20-23.
Kutner, Janet, “Jomo Boards”, ArtNews, Vol 74, No. 6, Summer 1975.
Raybor, Jozanne, “ David McManaway at DMFA”, Art in America, Vol 63, No. 4, July/August
1975, p. 109.
----”Le Dallas Museum of Fine Arts...David McManaway”, Gazette des Beaux Arts, November
1975.Smith, Roberta, “Twelve Days in Texas”, Art in America, Vol 64, No. 4, July/August 1976.
Porterfield, Billy, “Profiles: David and the Jomo Man”, D Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 7, July
1976, pp. 45-48.
Kutner, Janet, “Texas Artists: The Artwork of David McManaway”, Texas Homes, Vol. 2,
No. 3, pp. 63 - 68.
Rifkin, Ned, “David McManaway’s Jomos”, Artweek, December 15, 1979, p. 1.
Kutner, Janet, “Dallas: The Grass Roots Approach”, ArtNews, February 1980, Vol. 79,
No. 2, pp. 179-181.
Ennis, Michael, “Got My Jomo Working”, Texas Monthly, July 1980, Vol. 8, No. 7 pp. 154-157
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1987, p. 10.
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Newspapers
Askew, Rual, “Art & Artists” various mentions, Dallas Morning News: 5/21/62, 1/12/62,
10/16/60, 10/7/60, 10/4/60, 7/19/60.
Neville, John, “Art & Artists: Winners Listed”, Dallas Morning News, October 9, 1964, (photo)
Porter, Bob, “Texas Annual Winners Named”, Dallas Times Herald, October 9, 1964, (photo)
Neville, John, “Artists: McManaway Turns to Assemblage”, Dallas Morning News, March 4,
1965 (photo)
Neville, John, “Art & Artists: A Show of New Oils”, Dallas Morning News, October 22, 1965.
Neville, John, “Found Objects Put into Artful Forms”, Dallas Morning News, March 10, 1965.
Neville, John, “McManaway Probes Man’s Subconscious”, Dallas Morning News, 1965.
Porter, Bob, “Northpark Exhibition McManaway Takes Prize”, Dallas Times Herald, 1966.
Neville, John, “McManaway Wins Top TFAA Award”, Dallas Morning News, 1966.
“Art Notes: DeLong a 2nd Time Around”, Dallas Times Herald, March 24, 1966, p. 32A.
Bickel, Peter, “Museum Has 2 Acquisitions”, (Wesselman and McManaway”, Dallas Times
Herald, August 25, 1968 (photo)
Haacke, Lorraine, “Two Artists Gain Note”, Dallas Times Herald, November 5, 1969 (photo)
Kutner, Janet, “Kelly Show Chosen with Eye in Content”, Dallas Morning News, July 27,
1970 (photo)
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Dallas Morning News, March 28, 1971.
Haaacke, Lorraine, “Art: Ambitious ‘One i at a Time’ continues at SMU Gallery”, Dallas
Times Herald, May 16, 1971.
Freed, Eleanor, “One i at a Time - 8 Ids Recreate the Spirit of a Museum where an Artist
Was Never a Tinker Toy”, The Houston Post, April 4, 1971.
Butterfield, Jan, “SMU Art Exhibition Features Unusual Selection of Works”, Fort Worth
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and an Alley are Home to Craftsmen”, Dallas Morning News, March 23, 1975.
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