Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)

Running Buffalo with Hunters: Sketch for a Mural

Details

Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)
Running Buffalo with Hunters: Sketch for a Mural
signed with initials and dated 'MD 1939 ©' (lower left)
tempera on board
17 x 40 in. (43.2 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Park City, Utah.

Literature

W.M. Burnside, Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West, Provo, Utah, 1974, p. 86, illustrated
Donald J. Hagerty, Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon, Layton, Utah, 1993, p. 226 (as Buffalo Hunt, No. 2)

Lot Essay

The present work is one of two studies that exists for a large scale mural by the artist of a similar subject.

This painting will be included in Donald J. Hagerty's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.

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