Nov 11, 2011 - Sale 2261

Sale 2261 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
MAYNARD DIXON (1875-1946) APACHE TRAIL / SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES. 1928.
23x16 inches, 58 1/2x40 1/2 cm.
Condition B / B+: creases and abrasions in margins and image. Printed on thick paper.
A western painter, muralist and illustrator, Dixon created a lot of art and advertising 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 give it a decidedly modern flavor" (Dixon p. 153). Dixon 130 (var).