Sagebrush and Solitude

This is the first comprehensive publication on the paintings, letters, photographs, and poetry made by Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) while he was in Nevada. This large, landscape format book accompanies a blockbuster exhibit on this colorful western painter and illustrator. Although Dixon's contributions as an artist are widely recognized throughout the American West, this significant publication surveys nearly 180 artworks he created in Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the Eastern Sierra from 1901 to 1937. Dixon first visited the state of Nevada nearly 125 years ago; and while so much has changed during the past century, one can still explore many of the same remote locales depicted in these paintings or drive across the state beneath what many like to refer to as a cloud-filled, "Maynard Dixon sky." Richly illustrated, including a wealth of privately owned paintings never before reproduced, the volume includes by texts by scholar Donald Hagerty on Dixon's journeys on horseback, a significant essay on the art of the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), and Dixon's depictions of the workers who built the dam. Dixon is highly regarded as a regional artist in the American West (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah). He has a huge following in the West - but this is Nevada specific because so much of his work was made there.