


Maynard Dixon(1875-1946)Inyo County 24 x 30 in. framed 37 x 41 1/2 in.
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Aaron Bastian
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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)
signed and dated 'Maynard Dixon / 1923' (lower right)
oil on board
24 x 30 in.
framed 37 x 41 1/2 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
William A. Karges Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California.
Private collection, Utah, from the above.
Painted in 1923, Inyo County is a strong example of Maynard Dixon's transitional period between early, more graphic works of the 1910s and canvases of the 1930s that often feature hard horizon lines and vivid colors. In the present painting, Dixon has developed definitive spatial divisions particularly noticeable in the yellow row of brush that separates the desert foreground from the foothills and mountains. The diagonal cloud forms graphically mimic the mountain peaks silhouettes. Shapes are stylized and defined, presenting a mature, confident and thoroughly modern view of the Western landscape. Though Inyo County is a depiction of his native California, just to the east of his childhood home in the San Joaquin Valley, the desert and mountain features could just as easily be a depiction of Utah or Arizona.