Flathead Indian and Pony

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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Flathead Indian and Pony, 1909, oil on chipboard, 7 x 10 1/4 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1937.

Framing available for canvas prints between 10 & 21 inches.

Canvas prints are rolled and packaged in a shipping tube. Paper prints that are smaller than 14” are shipped flat and prints that are larger than 14” are rolled and shipped in a shipping tube.

Framed work is wrapped in packaging foam and shipped in a framed art box.

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Flathead Indian and Pony

Maynard Dixon, 1909

In the summer of 1900, Maynard Dixon journeyed into the Southwest from his native California, traveling “Eastward to see the West.” It was the first of many trips he would make during his lifetime to sketch and paint in the often remote western regions of the country. Dixon loved both the dramatic scenery and profound silences of what he called “my western world.” Here he found what he referred to on numerous occasions as “the Real Thing.” (Excerpt taken from Escape to Reality: The Western World of Maynard Dixon)

Dixon painted this little piece in 1909 while visiting the Flathead tribes in Montana. He visited the Flatheads in their tipis and quickly painted small works like this one on the spot. Here, a body of water is indicated by the bright blue paint beneath the horse’s torso.

The Flathead lands with many lakes, and the tipi dwellings, matched what mainstream America perceived as authentically “Indian.” But most of Dixon’s paintings show a new vision of the West. They depict the desert lands and Pueblo peoples that he saw in New Mexico and Arizona. (Branding the American West, 2016)

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What’s Going On?

Central to the image a male Native American figure, dressed in red pants and a blue shirt, lays a red blanket on the back of a horse.  The horse stands facing the right edge of the canvas with the reins of his bridle hanging down to the ground.  On the ground near the end of the reins is a saddle.  Behind the horse there is a log cabin on the right and on the left a teepee.  In the distance behind the teepee are large mountains. Fragments of another work are on the verso.

Additional information

Material

Canvas, Paper

Size

10" x 6.7", 14" x 9.5", 21" x 14.2", 30" x 20.3", 36" x 24.4"

Frame

Black, Espresso, Natural, Print Only

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