(Wild West) Few artists managed to capture the desert Southwest better than Maynard Dixon. His mentor may have been journalist Charles Lummis, who encouraged the California-born artist to "travel east to see the real West," but Western artist Frederic Remington pushed Dixon in the right direction.
Born on a ranch near Fresno on January 24, 1875, Dixon was an asthmatic child who found only enough energy to draw. In 1891, at 16, he sent two sketchbooks to Remington, who wrote back: "You draw better at your age than I did at the same age. If you have the 'sand' to overcome difficulties, you could be an artist in time. No one's opinion of what you can do is of any consequence—time and your character will develop that." Continued
Friday, January 11, 2013
Art of the West: Maynard Dixon
(Wild West) Few artists managed to capture the desert Southwest better than Maynard Dixon. His mentor may have been journalist Charles Lummis, who encouraged the California-born artist to "travel east to see the real West," but Western artist Frederic Remington pushed Dixon in the right direction.
Born on a ranch near Fresno on January 24, 1875, Dixon was an asthmatic child who found only enough energy to draw. In 1891, at 16, he sent two sketchbooks to Remington, who wrote back: "You draw better at your age than I did at the same age. If you have the 'sand' to overcome difficulties, you could be an artist in time. No one's opinion of what you can do is of any consequence—time and your character will develop that." Continued
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