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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
MAYNARD DIXON (1875-1946)
APACHE TRAIL / SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES. 1928.
22 1/2x15 3/4 inches, 57x40 cm. Condition B+: extensive expert overpainting in margins; restoration along creases and pin holes at edges of image.
A Western painter, muralist and illustrator, Dixon created a lot of art and advertising materials for the Southern Pacific Railroad. "The Apache Trail" was a side trip organized by the railroad for travelers on the route to California. Passengers would leave the train and be taken by car "through Arizona's Salt River Valley made possible by construction of the Roosevelt Dam" (Zega p. 55). Dixon originally designed this image in 1927 for the cover of a brochure advertising the trail. "The Apache Indian posed against colorful, cubist cliffs . . . [has] plastic solidity and strong color relationships [that] give it a decidedly modern flavor" (Dixon p. 153). Dixon 130 (var).
