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A place of refuge : Maynard Dixon's Arizona

Title
A place of refuge : Maynard Dixon's Arizona / Thomas Brent Smith ; with contributions from Donald J. Hagerty.
Author
Smith, Thomas Brent.
Publication
  • Tucson, Ariz. : Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block ; Norman, Okla. : Distributed by University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]
  • ©2008

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Additional Authors
  • Hagerty, Donald J.
  • Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946.
  • Tucson Museum of Art.
Description
148 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
"The California-born Dixon (1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to experience what he believed was a vanishing West. Amid the mesas, canyons, and desertlands of the region he found visual inspiration and a spiritual solace that would shape both his painting and his life. His response to Arizona's natural and cultural landscapes would fuel the evolution of a powerful personal style; the place would ultimately become both an aesthetic and personal refuge." "Thomas Brent Smith explores Dixon's departure from traditional depictions of human conflict in the "Old West" model, as rendered by artists such as his predecessors Frederic Remington and others, in favor of a new body of tranquil and idealistic western images. Donald J. Hagerty presents a biographical essay tracing Dixon's travels amid the lands and people of Arizona and exploring their impact on his art. The two essays are followed by a "Chronological Folio" of Dixon's Arizona works from the early drawings of Native American subjects and scenes made in 1900 to the gentle and eloquent landscapes of his final years."--Publisher's description
Alternative Title
Maynard Dixon's Arizona
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 11, 2008-Feb. 15, 2009.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).
Contents
Sky and sandstone: Maynard Dixon's Arizona years / Donald J. Hagerty -- Evading conflict: interpreting Maynard Dixon's Arizona subjects / Thomas Brent Smith -- A chronological folio.
ISBN
  • 9780911611366
  • 0911611363
LCCN
2008924414
OCLC
  • ocn227031614
  • 227031614
  • SCSB-1492882
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library