Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced "Arizona" "the magic
name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy
and stark endeavor." "So long had I dreamed of it," he professed,
"that when I came there it was not strange to me. Its sun was my
sun; its ground was my ground." The California-born Dixon
(1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb what he
believed was a vanishing West. Dixon found Arizona a visually
inspiring and spiritual place that shaped the course of his
paintings and ultimately defined him. "A Place of Refuge: Maynard
Dixon's Arizona" is the first exhibition to focus solely on the
renowned painter's depictions of Arizona subjects.
As early as 1903 Dixon referred to Arizona as home. Although he
spent most of his life in San Francisco, Dixon lamented to friends
that he longed for Arizona and the solitude of the desert, and he
frequently traversed the land's varied expanses. In 1939 he made
Tucson his winter home and spent his remaining years painting his
beloved desert landscape. In the confluence of Arizona's natural
and cultural landscapes, Dixon would become one of the West's most
distinctive painters, creating a body of work that established his
place among the vanguard of artists who portrayed western
subjects.
Thomas Brent Smith explores Dixon's remarkable departure from
traditional depictions of human conflict in the "Old West" rendered
by such predecessors as Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, and
Charles Schreyvogel. Smith's essay describes this shift in artistic
ideology and analyzes the tranquil images that emerged on Dixon's
canvases. Donald J. Hagerty's biographical essay highlights Dixon's
travels and his affinity for the people and landscape of
Arizona.
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