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Artist or Maker: Maynard Dixon 1875-1946
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Provenance: Property from the Estate of Mrs. Tadini Bacigalupi, San Francisco, California Exhibition: {An Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Drawings by Maynard Dixon}, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas, April 15-19, 1928. {Pan American Exhibition}, Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1925. MacBeth Galleries, New York, February 13-March 5, 1923. Literature: Wesley Burnside, {Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West}, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah, 1974, p.165. {Los Angeles Times}, February 1926 (mentioned in a review)
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Notes: It was in portraying the western landscape as honestly as he could that Maynard Dixon found his vision. The 1920's was a very creative time for Dixon. He had just married the photographer Dorothea Lange and a new energy found its way into his work. They traveled throughout Nevada and Arizona, seeking inspiration in the natural beauty of the Southwest. In an article he wrote for {Sunset Magazine} in January of 1921, Dixon discussed his goals: "My object has always been to get as close to the real thing as possible- peop le, anima ls and country. The melodramatic Wild West idea is not for me the big possibility. The more lasting qualities are in the quiet and more broadly human aspects of Western life. I am to interpret from the most part the poetry and pathos of life of Western people seen amid the grande ur, sternness and loneliness of their country." {The Monument} is one of these simple yet powerful compositions that emerged at this time. . Donald Hagerty has confirmed the authenticity of this pai nting. . The painting is listed as #235 in Dixon's original sales log. According to the entry, the painting was {sold to Mr. Bacigalupi for 00.}
