A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon's Arizona

by Thomas Brent Smith

Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced "Arizona" "the magic name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark endeavor." "So long had I dreamed of it," he professed, "that when I came there it was not strange to me. Its sun was my sun; its ground was my ground." The California-born Dixon (1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb what he believed was a vanishing West. Dixon found Arizona a visually inspiring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911611363
• ISBN13: 9780911611366
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Tucson Museum of Art
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 10.1"