MAYNARD LAFAYETTE DIXON (American 1875-1946)

Description

MAYNARD LAFAYETTE DIXON (American 1875-1946)
Study for Frontier Type # 2
Ink with pencil on paper
6.75in. x 5.25in.
Estate stamp lower left
A certificate from the artist's estate signed and titles by Edith Hamlin Dixon (the artist's wife) accompanies this work.
Provenance: the artist's estate

Dixon was considered the leading painter of desert and frontier life and was easily the most successful Western painter working the Southwest. In the 1930s Dixon devoted the majority of his time to painting murals and was working on a large one of the Grand Canyon when he died at the age of 71. His artwork is housed in public collections, including the Amon-Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; San Diego Museum of Art, California; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; MH De Young Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Condition: unframed, good

More information about Dixon, Maynard. See also: Maynard Dixon, Dixon, Lafayette Maynard Artist.

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