Artist: Maynard Dixon; Title: Oasis; Medium: Oil on canvas mounted to board; Dimensions: 16 x 19 1/2 inches; Signed: Signed Beatty, Nev. Sept 1935 lower left; Verso: Titled verso; Framed/Base: 22 x 26 inches
Overall Dimensions
Height: 22.00
Width: 26.00
Provenance:
Bonhams, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Literature:
Space Silence Spirit: Maynard Dixon’s West, A.P. Hays, Paradise Valley, AZ, 2002: p. 28.
The Art of Maynard Dixon, Donald J. Hagerty, Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 2010: p. 218.
Exhibited:
Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 2024
The Abe Hays Family Maynard Dixon Collection, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Scottsdale, AZ, 2020-2021
Oasis was created in 1935 during a Nevada trip to explore several of the old mining towns, including Virginia City, Silver City and Gold Hill on the famous Comstock Lode. “Dixon painted Oasis in the low desert at Beatty, Nevada, the eastern entrance to Death Valley,” A.P. Hays says of the work. “Such isolated regions seemed to draw the best from his talent.”