Lonesome Journey

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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Lonesome Journey, 1946, oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 36 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of Dickman Investment, 1974.

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.

Description

Lonesome Journey

Maynard Dixon, 1946

In this work, Dixon demonstrates his mastery of composition. The complex landscape formations have been simplified and depicted in bold color against the blue sky. The sage bushes in the foreground lead the viewer’s eye toward the wagon driver as the focal point of the painting. This work was completed in the year of Dixon’s death and depicts a solitary figure in a wagon moving away from the viewer against a brilliantly lit red canyon at sunset. This is a poignant tribute to Dixon, a loner who preferred the solitude of the desert to the commotion of city life. Thrilled by the quiet majesty of the desert landscape, he often depicted figures dwarfed by dramatic vistas of mesas, buttes, and clouds.

Lonesome Journey was displayed in both our People in a Hard Land and The First 100 Years exhibitions.

What’s Going On?

The foreground of the image is a mound of desert.  On the left edge a road begins and continues up the mound where a buck wagon pulled by a single horse appears at the midpoint of the canvas.  A solitary figure drives the wagon.  Behind the wagon large clay-colored cliffs rise up and dominate the background.  Only a small piece of clear blue sky shows on the right.

More About Dixon

Originally from California, Dixon painted subjects in both Arizona and New Mexico. He eventually settled in Southern Utah. There he developed his signature style of unique compositions. These often featured low horizons and simplified, yet imposing clouds and rock formations in bold colors.

Dixon also focused on preserving the image of Native American peoples whom he believed were disappearing from the American West. While married to the famous photographer Dorothea Lange, Dixon also focused on social realist subjects. These depicted people struggling to make a living during the Great Depression.

Additional information

Material

Canvas, Paper

Size

10" x 7.2", 14" x 10.1", 21" x 15.2", 30" x 21.7", 36" x 26"

Frame

Black, Espresso, Natural, Print Only

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