Desert Dreams

by Hagerty, Donald J.; Dixon, Maynard

• ISBN13: 9780879058265
• ISBN10: 0879058269
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

"I know my West some, but to realize how big and splendid and free and magnificent and God-made it really is, once in a while, I have to look on Maynard Dixon's pictures," said Wilbur Hall in 1937. Added to this new edition are 20 newly discovered Dixon paintings, along with 12 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs, many of them portraits of Dixon taken by Dorothea Lange. This beautiful book captures the magnificence of Dixon's work and his unique personality.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii	(2)
Acknowledgments	x	(2)
Brief Chronology	xii	(4)
Foreword	xvi	(7)
Introduction	xxiii	(5)
Chapter One Growing Up on the Dead Level: 1875-1893	xxviii
Chapter Two Fin-de-Siecle Illustrator: 1893-1900	8	(14)
Chapter Three Going East to See the West: 1900-1907	22	(28)
Chapter Four Illustrated West, the New York Years: 1907-1912	50	(16)
Chapter Five Turn of the Tide: 1912-1920	66	(34)
Chapter Six Visionary: 1920-1925	100	(38)
Chapter Seven Murals and Modernism: 1925-1931	138	(36)
Chapter Eight From Taos to Chaos: 1931-1935	174	(46)
Chapter Nine To Thine Own Self Be True: 1935-1940	220	(14)
Chapter Ten At Last: 1940-1946	234	(24)
Portfolio Addendum Revised Edition: 1998	258	(24)
Notes	282	(5)
Bibliography	287	(4)
Index	291

Excerpts

Introduction On an early summer morning before the traffic arrives, walk south from Broadway on San Francisco's Montgomery Street. Accompanied by drifting, trailing fog, you will soon come to the 700 block of Montgomery. This block, once a vibrant, colorful center of San Francisco's cultural life, is today overwhelmed by expensive antique shops, law firms, and aluminum, glass, and concrete high-rise office buildings.