Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946) was active/lived in California, Arizona. Maynard Dixon is known for Western landscape painting-skyscapes, Indians.

Medium: OIl on board
Size: 17 1/2" x 18"
Frame Size: 23 1/2" x 24"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Style: Impressionist
Circa: 1931 Dated

Surrounded by the vast flatlands of his birthplace in Fresno, California, Maynard Dixon began sketching at the age of ten. Frail health restricted his childhood amusements to sketching trips with his pony, listening to the local old-timers' tales of the early West, and reading. By the time he was sixteen he had sufficient confidence in his work to send his sketch book to Frederic Remington, his illustrator hero. At eighteen, spurred on by the encouragement and advice of Remington, he enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design. Before he was twenty he was working as a newspaper and magazine illustrator in San Francisco.

One of his strongest convictions as an artist was that, if one felt doubtful of his work, he should return to nature and renew his vision. This was advice which he followed diligently all his life. When he was not working on a commission, he spent his time on painting and sketching trips, which eventually encompassed every state in the West. From these extensive field trips and the insights they produced, a mastery of his material and a highly distinctive style evolved. Maynard Dixon's many works attest to the deep understanding he had of his subjects, especially of the desert and its inhabitants, the Indians, early settlers, and cowboys.

Dixon's style with its strong, dramatic forms and clear, vivid colors was perfectly suited to murals, and he painted many of them. Two of his outstanding works in the medium were painted in 1939 for the Department of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. In 1946 he prepared sketches for a large mural of the Grand Canyon for the Santa Fe Railroad in Los Angeles. Already extremely ill, he nevertheless managed to supervise the execution of this last work at his Tucson studio. Within a month after its completion, he died.

Dixon was a member of the Salmagundi Club, New York City; the Architectural League of New York; the Bohemian Club; the Press Club of San Francisco, CA; the Oakland Art Association, CA; the Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles, CA; Painters of the West, Los Angeles, CA; the American Federation of Arts; and the Southwest Society. Dixon's works are held in many private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York City; the Oakland Museum and the Pasadena Art Institute, CA; the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX; the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

PROVENANCE
Private Collection from Long Island

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