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  1. Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist. He was known for his paintings, and his body of work focused on the American West.Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art to the U.S. Southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century.

    • Painter
    • November 11, 1946 (aged 71), Tucson, Arizona, US
    • January 24, 1875, Fresno, California, US
  2. Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was a 20th-century American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange. Dixon was born in Fresno, California, into a family of aristocratic Virginia Confederates who had found a new home there after the American ...

    • American
    • January 24, 1875
    • Fresno, California, United States
    • November 11, 1946
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  4. Maynard Dixon is considered by many art collectors to be the premier artist of the West. His ability to capture the land and its inhabitants, in a nonjudgmental and honest way, has left an indelible legacy. The Maynard Dixon Museum is a little less than an hour flight from Albuquerque to Tucson Arizona. “ The hundred dollar Southwest flight ...

  5. Biography. Born in Fresno, California, Maynard Dixon was largely self-taught as an artist. His first sketches were of the Western landscape. In 1893 he attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, but withdrew after only three months. That same year his first illustrations for the Overland Monthly appeared, beginning a long ...

    • January 24, 1875
    • November 13, 1946
  6. MAYNARD DIXON HIGHLIGHTS. Maynard Dixon was an important 20th-century American painter who is best known for his iconic depictions of the American West. Originally from California, Dixon painted subjects in Arizona, New Mexico and eventually settled in Southern Utah. There he developed his signature style of unique compositions, often featuring ...

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    View Maynard Dixon’s 770 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.

  8. A native of Fresno, California, Dixon was born in 1875 and died an iconoclast in 1946. A reluctant magazine and book illustrator in San Francisco, he achieved national name recognition early. But even in his twenties and thirties, having landed a stint with Harper’s in New York, he felt burned out on the human rat race.

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