Maynard Dixon
American
Born on a ranch near Fresno, California, Maynard Dixon is best known for his paintings of the American West. He traveled widely, exploring the West beyond California, making visits to Montana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. He was attracted both to the landscape and the people he met on his travels. He experimented with a variety of painting styles and color palettes, all in service of visually telling stories about the land and its inhabitants.
Born
1875
Died
1946
Where do you go to find serenity?
Dixon once wrote about his deeply held feelings about art and nature: “Out of the sanity which usually comes to the artist when he returns to Nature and isolates himself from current fashions in art theory—out of the effect to go direct to his source of interest and interpret subject and sensation without reference to the mode in art—there comes an assurance that art is related to something larger than art, that it is, after all, but one of the functions of life.”
Medium
Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
Credit
Bequest of E. Dixon Heise
Item ID
2006.33
Dimensions
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Date
1935
Country
Artist name
Maynard Dixon