Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 224 – 283 Maynard Dixon (1875–1946) Distant Mesa, Navajo Reservation, Kayenta, Arizona (1922) oil on canvas 16 × 20 inches signed lower left: Maynard Dixon Kayenta Ariz. Aug 1922 VERSO Signed, titled, and “#225” Label, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Catalina Foothills, Arizona According to Dixon biographer Mark Sublette, “Dixon’s use of long lines of mesas leads to some of his most iconic paintings in the mid-twenties. Distant Mesa and Ponies Coming TowardWater are two works whose figuration depicts Dixon’s gravitational pull towards the earth.” PROVENANCE Private collection, Reno, Nevada LITERATURE Mark Sublette, Maynard Dixon’s AmericanWest: Along the Distant Mesa , Just Me Publishing, 2018, pp. 157, 416, illustrated $40,000–60,000