Born in Fresno, California in the San Joaquin Valley, Maynard Dixon, originally named Henry St. John Dixon, became a noted illustrator, landscape, and mural painter of the early 20th-century American West, especially the desert, Indians, early settlers, and cowboys.
Several phases of Dixon's career show him to be an early modernist painter who incorporated Post-Impressionism and Cubist-Realism into his landscapes and skyscapes. Examples of strong modernist influences in his paintin (showing 500 of 39739 characters). |
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Maynard Dixon is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Illustrators
Painters of Grand Canyon
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Modernism
California Painters
Western Painters
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