Maynard Dixon. Maynard Dixon was an American artist whose body of work focused on the American West.
He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange. Together with Fernand Lungren, another California based artist, Maynard Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art on the U.S.
southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. He was born Lafayette Maynard Dixon in Fresno, California, named after his maternal grandfather.
His family of aristocratic Virginia Confederates had found a new home in California after the American Civil War. His mother, Constance Maynard, a well-educated daughter of a Navy officer from San Francisco, shared her love of classic literature with the young boy and encouraged him in his writing and drawing.
His father was Harry St. John Dixon. Dixon moved to San Francisco and studied briefly in 1893 with Arthur Mathews at the California School of Design where he became a close friend of the Tonalist painter Xavier Martinez, with whom he traveled to Monterey, Carmel, and Point Lobos. In 1900 Dixon visited Arizona and Mexico and a year later he accompanied artist Edward Borein on a horseback trip through several western states. Also in 1900 Dixon arranged for the debut exhibition of the soon-to-be-famous sculptor Arthur Putnam in the jinks room of the S
He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange. Together with Fernand Lungren, another California based artist, Maynard Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art on the U.S.
southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. He was born Lafayette Maynard Dixon in Fresno, California, named after his maternal grandfather.
His family of aristocratic Virginia Confederates had found a new home in California after the American Civil War. His mother, Constance Maynard, a well-educated daughter of a Navy officer from San Francisco, shared her love of classic literature with the young boy and encouraged him in his writing and drawing.
His father was Harry St. John Dixon. Dixon moved to San Francisco and studied briefly in 1893 with Arthur Mathews at the California School of Design where he became a close friend of the Tonalist painter Xavier Martinez, with whom he traveled to Monterey, Carmel, and Point Lobos. In 1900 Dixon visited Arizona and Mexico and a year later he accompanied artist Edward Borein on a horseback trip through several western states. Also in 1900 Dixon arranged for the debut exhibition of the soon-to-be-famous sculptor Arthur Putnam in the jinks room of the S
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