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SOLD"Hills at Indian Springs, Nevada"16" x 20", oil on canvas
Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)
by Robert Parsons
and Ashley Rolshoven
Dixon wrote:
"At last
I shall give myself
to the desert again—
that I, in its golden dust
may be blown from a barren peak
broadcast over the sun-lands.
If you should desire some news of me,
go ask the little horned toad
whose home is the dust;
or seek it among the fragrant sage,
or question the mountain juniper—
and they, by their silence
will freely inform you."
Maynard Dixon painting
When Dixon first saw Arizona, he said "he had found his country."
Dixon painting
Dixon lived by, "If doubtful of your work, return to nature and renew your vision."
Maynard Dixon was an important illustrator, mural and landscape painter.
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Maynard Dixon Highest Auction Prices
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"Story Tellers" (Montana, October 1917) Oil on Canvas 36" x 39" (7/30/2005) Price: $1,680,000
"The Pony Boy" c. 1920 Oil on Canvas 36" x 72" Price: $1,326,000
"Tradition" Oil on Canvas 30" x 40" 6/19/2002 Price: $1,054,500
"High Hills of Tehachapi (No.558)" c. 1936 California 36" x 40" 12/11/2006 Price: $997,250
"Oncoming Storm" c,1941 Arizona 36 X 40 Oil on Canvas 09/15/07 Price: $980,000
"The Prairie" (also called Cattle Drive) c.1915 Oil on Canvas 62 x 78 5/23/07 Price: $796,000
"Home of the Half Breed" Oil on Canvas 26" x 30" 7/27/2002 Price: $792,000
"Remembrance of Tusayan" c. 1925 20" x 30" Oil on Canvas 07/22/2006 Price: $728,000
"Desert Mesa" c. 1937 Oil on Canvas 34.25" x 54" 11/17/2004 Price: $679,500
"Land Westward" c. 1936 Oil on Canvas 25" x 30" 11/16/2005 Price: $632,000
"Canyon Del Muerto - Coronado Rock" c. 1923 Oil on Canvas 25" x 30" 4/2/2005 Price: $616,000
"Cattle Drive" c.1915 Oil on Canvas 62" x 78" 7/24/2004 Price: $560,000
"The Monument, Navajo Reservation, Arizona" c. 1922 Oil on Canvas 25" x 30" Price: $525,000
"Oncoming Storm" 1941 Oil on Canvas 36.00" x 40.00" 11/12/2011 Price: $520,000
"Lone Bull" 1918 Oil on Canvas 18.00" x 30.00" 07/21/2012 Price: $438,750
"Remuda" 1921-1945 Oil on Canvas 25.00" x 30.00" 09/14/2013 Price: $438,750
"Cattle Drive" 1939 Mixed Media/ Panel 49.5" x 36" 09/16/2016 Price: $409,500
"Cowpuncher" Oil on Canvas 30.25" x 25.00" 09/17/2011 Price: $402,500
"Navajos in a Canyon" 1945 Oil on Canvas 25.00" x 30.00" 07/21/2012 Price: $400,000
"Studies for 'Grass Land' and 'Ploughed Land' Murals (2)" 1938 Oil on canvas Price: $367,500
"Mountains in Sunset Light (No. 368)" 1927 25.25" x 30.25" 08/05/2008 Price: $360,000
"The Ancient" c. 1915 Oil on Canvas 20" x 12" 10/30/2000 Price: $358,000
"Sculptured Sandstone" 1944 Oil on Canvasboard 20.00" x 24.00" 07/23/2011 Price: $351,000
"The Crossing" c.1921 Oil on Canvas 25 X30 05/23/01 Price: $336,000
"The Wild Bunch" c.1912 Oil on Canvas 30 X 40 05/26/99 Price: $332,500
"Summer Clouds, New Mexico (No. 409), 1931" 1931 16" x 20" Oil o canvas board Price: $330,000
"Moraine and meadow, Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California" 1924 Oil on canvas 20.25" x 30.25" Price: $326,000
"CANYON RANCH" Price: $325,000
"The Puzzled Cowboy" c.1911 Oil on Canvas 21 X 31 07/30/05 Price: $302,400
"The Prisoners" 1916 Oil on board 21.75" x 19" 04/30/2008 Price: $301,000
"Buck Peters, Ranchman" 1911 Oil on board 27.75" x 19.25" 11/23/2015 Price: $293,000
"Red Rock and Cactus" c.1945 Arizona Oil on Canvasboard 16 X 20 05/01/07 Price: $288,000
Fine Art prices have risen steadily. Please contact the Gallery for the latest prices and current inventory.
Parsons does not offer Maynard Dixon reproductions, because no reproduction can compare to the real paintings.
Parsons invites you to visit the Galleries to experience the unmatched beauty of the real art.
Maynard Dixon Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago
Biltmore Salon (LA), 1928
Calif. Academy of Sciences (SF), 1981
Charles Russell Art Show
CHS, 1975
Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
De Young Museum, 1956, 1968
Fresno Arts Center, 1975
Galerie Beaux Arts (SF), 1925-32
Gump's (SF), 1920
Haggin Museum (Stockton), 1934
Macbeth Gallery (NYC), 1923
Mills College (Oakland), 1927
National Academy of Design
Oakland Art Gallery, 1919
Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Pasadena Art Museum, 1928
Salmagundi Club, New York City
Salons of America
San Francisco Art Association
Society of Illustrators
Society of Independent Artists
Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1921
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts
Vickery, Atkins, & Torrey Gallery (SF), 1914
Whitney Museum of American Art
Maynard Dixon Timeline:
American Artist
Jan. 24, 1875 - Nov. 14, 1946
Lafayette Maynard Dixon was born Jan. 24, 1875, in Fresno, California, part of the San Joaquin Valley.
He was first named Henry St. John Dixon, in honor of his fathers' great grandfather.
When he was christened on September 8, his name was changed to honor his maternal grandfather.
He was a renown master painter, illustrator and landscape and mural painter.
He was a modernist, post impressionist and cubist realist.
Dixon had enormous respect for Native American Indian culture, especially the Hopis,
often using an Indian Thunderbird as a signature or logo for his work.
He spent as large part of his life in the California desert around Indio and Mecca.
A great number of his paintings were created in his home area of the San Joaquin Valley.
Some of his closest friends were fellow artists John Hilton, Clyde Forsythe,
Xavier Martinez, Edward Borein and Jimmy Swinnerton.
He studied under Arthur Mathews (California School of Design in San Francisco).
Charles Lummis was his mentor and sponsor.
Dixon was honored by membership in the Salmagundi Club and National Academy of Design.
He started drawing Western life when he was seven years old.
Dixon was a sickly asthmatic child and found relief in sketching, which he began at age 10.
At age 16 (1891), he was encouraged by Frederic Remington, who gave his work a positive review.
Remington said his progress as an artist would be determined by how "time and your character will develop".
In 1893 Dixon and his family resettled in Alameda, California.
Dixon, encouraged by his mother, began to study at the California School of Design in San Francisco.
He found the school restrictive, leaving after three months.
Dixon wanted to learn from nature and practice in plein-air.
In 1893 his art work was first published in the "Overland Monthly".
In 1895 Dixon found full time employment with San Francisco Morning Call.
in 1898 his drawings were published in the Los Angeles magazine "Land of Sunshine".
In 1899 Dixon worked for the the San Francisco Examiner.
By then he was taking drawing trips to the Northwest and Southwest
and receiving regular exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Association.
But he learned he needed to "go East to see the West."
In 1900 he took his first journeys to Arizona and New Mexico, as recommended by his mentor, Charles Lummis.
When he saw Arizona Dixon said he had "he had found his country."
He visited and created art in Fort Mohave, Prescott, Tempe, Isleta Pueblo, and Santa Fe.
After 6 moths, he returned to his native San Francisco.
In 1901 he traveled with fellow artist Edward Borein by horseback to Nevada, northeastern California, Oregon, and Idaho.
In 1902 he visited the famous trading post of Lorenzo Hubbell in Ganado, Arizona.
He stayed there for two months, beginning a long term friendship with Hubbell.
In 1905 he traveled with his friend Xavier Martinez to Guadalajara, Mexico.
In 1905 Dixon was married to fellow artist Lillian West Tobey.
She remained behind while he went on to draw minning settlements for Cosmopolitan magazine.
In 1906 he lost most of his art work to the San Francisco fire.
After the fire he crated special artwork for Sunset magazine called "The Spirit of the City" in hope of rebirth.
Then he and Lillian moved to Sausalito, in Marin County, across the bay from San Francisco.
In 1907 Dixon created western themed murals ("The Cattleman", "The Apache", "The Prospector", and "Irrigation")
for the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Tucson, Arizona.
From 1908 to 1912, Dixon worked for Century, Scribner's, and Mc Clure's magazines in New York City.
In 1909 and again in 1917 he traveled to Montana.
In October of 1910 his daughter Constance Dixon was born.
Dixon visited Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and Cutbank, Montana.
In 1909, traveling under the encouragement of Charles Moody, he drew the Native American Indians of Idaho and Nevada.
Dixon labored as a cowboy for the C Cattle Company.
In 1911 Dixon was honored by his election to Dixon Elected to the New York Society of Illustrators.
He made the friendship of Robert Henri, and began a relationship with Sophie Treadwell, the playwright.
In 1912 he declined Blumenscheins' invitation to the Taos Society of Artists.
In 1912 he moved back to California, giving up his commercial work for murals and easel paintings.
He was commissioned for murals by Anita Baldwin McClaughry.
In 195 he was honored with the Bronze Medal at the Pan Pacific International Exhibition.
However, he experienced a nervous breakdown during the Exhibition.
His art works were shown in the Exhibitions Palace of Fine Arts.
In 1917 he became divorced, because of his wife's alcoholism.
He sought solace in Montana.
In 1920, Introduced by Imogen Cunningham and Roi Partridge,
Dixon became married to Dorothea Lange, a photographer.
They were soon wed on May 21st.
In 1922, the couple stayed at the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
In 1923, Dixon was honored by an exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York.
There he showed his "Desert Shepherdess" and "The Ancients".
In 1923 he stayed at the Hopi reservation at Walpi, Arizona.
In 1925 his son Daniel Rhodes Dixon was born.
In 1928 his second son John Eaglefeather Dixon was born.
In 1929, in Phoenix, he painted murals for the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.
From September 1931 to January 1932 he lived in New Mexico, Taos and Ranchos de Taos.
He was invited to join the Taos Society of Artists, but declined.
In 1932, needing money, he returned to California.
In 1933 he traveled with his family to Zion National Park and Mt. Carmel, Utah for the summer.
In 1934 he painted his "Forgotten Man" Series, show the suffering of peoples.
During the 1930s Dixon created murals and paintings for the WPA.
In October 1935 he and his wife divorced.
In 1937 he sold Brigham Young University 85 paintings, sketches and drawings.
In 1937 Dixon became married to artist Edith Hamilton.
In 1937 they bought land at Mount Carmel, Utah building a home and art studio there
In 1937, his health forced Dixon to move to Tucson, Arizona, for the drier climate.
In 1938 he created two murals for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In 1939 he went to Tucson, Arizona.
In 1940 he and his wife Hamilton moved to Mt. Carmel.
In 1941, he built a house at Tucson.
In 1942, he and his wife visited and traveled in Arizona and Utah.
In 11943 he created illustrations for the book "Oregon Trail".
In 1945 he was honored with a major exhibition at Scripps College's Florence Rand Lang Galleries.
In 1946, helped by his wife and friends Ray Strong and Buck Weaver,
he created his last mural for the Los Angeles ticket office of the Santa Fe Railroad.
He passed away at Tucson, Arizona in November of 1946.
His ashes are buried in a Hopi bowl at Mt. Carmel.
The land is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Maynard Dixon Paintings include:
“Old Patio”
“In Old Tuson”
“Adobe Town”
“Storm from the Sierra”
“The Cloud”
“Hills at Indian Spring, Nevada.”
Maynard Dixon Museum Collections
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Arizona State University Art Museum
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Booth Western Art Museum
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
C.M. Russell Museum
Crocker Art Museum, CaliforniaDallas Museum of Art
De Young Museum
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians-Western Art
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Great Plains Art Museum
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Jack S Blanton Museum of Art
Laguna Art Museum
Maynard Dixon Museum
Maynard Dixon Living History Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Notable SiteMaynard Dixon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C
Oakland Museum of California
Phoenix Art Museum
R W Norton Art Gallery
San Diego Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Springville Museum of Art
St. George Art Museum
Stark Museum of Art
The Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
The Kinsey Institute Gallery
Tucson Maynard Dixon Museum
Tucson Museum of Art
USC Fisher Gallery
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Maynard Dixon Paintings Online
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"Cartoon drawing of Arnold Genthe photographing a young woman"
"Overland Monthly" May, 1895
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