Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon
by: Hagerty, Donald J.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs-Smith, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, color illustrations throughout. Here are the chapter headings: Growing up on the Dead Level: 1875-1893; Fin-de-Siecle Illustrator: 1893-1900; Going East to See the West: 1900-1907; Illustrated West, The New York Years: 1907-1912; Turn of the Tide: 1912-1920; Visionary: 1920-1925; Murals and Modernism: 1925-1931; From Taos to Chaos: 1931-1935; To Thine Own Self Be True: 1935-1940; At Last: 1940-1946. From the dust jacket: 'To me, no painter has ever understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostlines of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of the land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.'-- Thomas McGuane. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.