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MAYNARD DIXON Arizona Landscape.
Thin felt-tip pen and ink on paper, 1925. 128x240 mm; 5x9 1/2 inches. Initialed and dated "Sept 1925" in pen and ink, lower left recto.
Ex-collection Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Sante Fe, with the label and ink stamps on the frame back.
Dixon (1875-1946), based in California, became known for his Western themes following a 1900 trip to Arizona and New Mexico. Following this initial sojourn, Dixon rode through the region on horseback as a companion to the important Western artist Edward Borein (1872-1945) (see lots 124-127), continuously returning to sketch and paint. By 1925, when this study was created, he had married the renowned photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). Following their marriage Dixon's work took on a more modern style, as indicated by the loose, almost abstracted quality of the current lot. Dixon is remembered as a key figure in American southwestern art, and his body of work is maintained in the Maynard Dixon Museum in Tucson.
