Label tucked into a pocket on verso attached to the drawing's dust cover cited this drawing as having been included in an exhibition titled A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon's Arizona (2008).
A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona was the first exhibition to focus solely on the renowned painter’s depictions of Arizona subjects.
Description | Label tucked into a pocket on verso attached to the drawing's dust cover cited this drawing as having been included in an exhibition titled A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon's Arizona (2008). A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona was the first exhibition to focus solely on the renowned painter’s depictions of Arizona subjects. |
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About the Artist | (1875-1946, American) Maynard Dixon was an illustrator, landscape, and mural painter of the early 20th-century American West, especially the desert, Indians, and early settlers. Don Haggerty's volume The Life of Maynard Dixon shares a multitude of stories and images. YouTube devotees will fine no less than 4 videos featuring Maynard Dixon. The artist's primary dealer has been for many years Mark Sublette of Medicine Man Gallery based in Tucson, AZ, the city where Mr. Dixon died. Last year (July 2023) a large painting by Dixon, The Pony Boy, depicting an American Indian male on horseback, sold at auction for more than $2,000,000. |
Culture | USA, Arizona |
Style | Nostalgic American Indian |
Medium | Graphite on paper |
Sight size | 5" height X 4" width |
Frame | Dark wood fillet, fabric-wrapped window mat, Plexiglas, burl wood molding |
Frame size | 16" height X 14" width |
Signed | "MD" in graphite at viewer's upper left |
Date of creation | 1923 |
Condition | Excellent to very good, as paper has yellow cast and a 1/4" white spot at upper right corner |
Provenance | P Lar |