A Retrospective Of Works By The Late Maynard Dixon.
By Margaret Regan
THE FAMOUS WESTERN painter Maynard Dixon lived the last
six years of his life in Tucson, on land he bought from the Ronstadts
along Prince Road. He painted the golden light of autumn, the
blue-beige Catalinas, and, this being the early 1940s, the still-empty
desert stretching out before the mountains.
"Chollas and Shadow," one of the last oils he finished
before his death in 1946, is a classic Tucson scene. The yellow-gilded
chollas are thrust up against the blue mountain, which in turn
lies against the turquoise-blue sky. But it's also classic Dixon: