MAYNARD DIXON (1875-1946)
Waucoba Mountain (3,390m - 11, 123ft)
United States of America (California)
In Sunset Inyo Mountains, oil on canvas, 1929 Maynard Dixon Museum, Tucson, Arizona,
The mountains
Waucoba Mountain (3,390m - 11, 123ft) is the highest peak in the Inyo Mountains, a short mountain range east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California in the United States. The range separates the Owens Valley to the west from Saline Valley to the east, extending for approximately 70 mi (130 km) SSE from the southern end of the White Mountains, from which they are separated by Westgard Pass, to east of Owens Lake. Geologically, the mountains are a fault block range in the Basin and Range Province, at the western end of the Great Basin. They are considered to be among the most important and best-known Late Proterozoic to Cambrian sections in the United States.
The artist
Maynard Dixon was an American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange. In 1900, Dixon visited Arizona and New Mexico. This was the start of his lifelong passion for roaming the West. The next year he accompanied artist Edward Borein on a horseback trip through several Western states. In California, he illustrated books and magazines with Western themes. Some of his most memorable work from these early years appeared in Clarence Mulford’s books about Hopalong Cassidy.
Influenced in part by the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, Dixon began to search for a new expression, moving away from impressionism and into a simpler, more modern style. His wife Dorothea Lange, had a great influence on his art.
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