An active and outspoken, sometimes a cantankerous, participant in the life of San Francisco and the West, painter Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) developed enduring themes: the majestic western landscape, t
Hagerty, an independent scholar of the American west, chronicles the life and art of one of the west's great painters and illustrators, Maynard Dixon, in this intimately written biography. Following t
"I know my West some, but to realize how big and splendid and free and magnificent and God-made it really is, once in a while, I have to look on Maynard Dixon's pictures," said Wilbur Hall in 1937. Ad
Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced “Arizona” “the magic name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark endeavor.” “So long had I dreamed of it,” he professed, “
Poulton (Utah and Western Art, U. of Utah's Museum of Fine Arts) and Swanson (director, Springville, Utah museum of Art) have compiled color and b&w depictions of Utah's Red Rock, Monument Valley,