A.P. HAYS COLLECTION,

Maynard Dixon

Morning on the San Joaquin Plains

MEDIUM: Oil on canvas mounted to board

DIMENSIONS: 16 x 19 3/4 inches

ESTIMATE: $45,000.00 - $65,000.00

Signed Sandhill Camp, dated May 1921 lower left

Signed, titled and dated 1921, Cattle Range lands of the Dixon-Mordecai Ranches verso

Additional Information

Provenance:
Bonhams, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Literature:
Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West, Burnside, Wesley M., Brigham Young University Press. p. 164.
Space Silence Spirit: Maynard Dixon’s West, A.P. Hays, Paradise Valley, AZ, 2002: p. 29.
The Art of Maynard Dixon, Donald J. Hagerty, Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 2010: p. 55.

Exibited:
The Abe Hays Family Maynard Dixon Collection, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Scottsdale, AZ, 2020-2021

In the spring of 1921, Maynard Dixon spent time recovering from an asthma attack at Refuge, a familiar ranch in Madera County, California. While he was recuperating, he painted several works including Morning on the San Joaquin Plains. As the seasons changed, so did his palette, which is noted by Donald Hagerty in The Art of Maynard Dixon. “…[I]n Morning on the San Joaquin Plains, Dixon has painted an almost minimalist canvas. Now late May, the landscape has changed to the hot colors of summer, heat and dust rising from the dry earth obscuring the line between sky and horizon.”

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