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Thomas Brent Smith explores Dixon's remarkable departure from traditional depictions of human conflict in the "Old West" rendered by such predecessors as Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, and Charles Schreyvogel.
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Vintage photos accompany full-page color paintings and plenty of literary insight
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The artist Maynard Dixon first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to experience his perception of a 'vanishing West'. His paintings would capture this wild landscape - and here Thomas Brent Smith explores Dixon's focus on the 'old West', pairing a biographical essay with works drawn from his early Arizona landscapes up to his last years. Vintage photos accompany full-page color paintings and plenty of literary insight in a book perfect for either Arizona or general-interest art libraries.