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Willard DixonTahoe Evening, Winter
About the Item
People enjoying the setting sun on a frozen Lake at Tahoe, with cascading evening light and majestic alpine mountain ridge in the distance. Willard Dixon is one of our finest American contemporary realist painters, who has painted Northern California coastal landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Oakland Museum of California.
Tahoe Evening I is 36 x 54 inches. The work of art comes to you framed in a light wood floater frame and is ready to hang and enjoy for years to come. Artist signed and dated. Condition is excellent. Presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
The San Francisco Art Commission
AMA Headquarters, washington, D.C.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co., S.F. CA.
Transamerica Headquarters,S.F., CA.
San Francisco International Airport
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA.
Pacific Bell
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. Harrison Ford
Mr. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms Faye Dunaway
Mr. Peter Morton
Mrs. H.J. Heinze
Mr Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. Chappy Morris
Mr. Griffen Dunne
Margy Boyd
Caroline Graham
Mr. Richard Baker
Ms. Sabrina Guinness
Mr. Peter Asher
Mr. Earl McGrath
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1999 Art and Architecture, San Francisco Civic Center Complex Catalogue
1999 What Good is Art? William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster& 100 Artists, StudioDot Wiz
1998 The Artist and the American Landscape, John Driscoll, First Glance Books
1996 Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas Alan Gussow, Gerald Peters Gallery
1995 Facing eden: 100 years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and University of California Press
1993 Paintings of California , Arnold Skolnick, The Artist as Native, Reinventing Regionalism, Alan Gussow, Pomegranate Artbooks
1992 Willard Dixon: A California Luminist, Art of California, Katherine Littell, The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lowery stokes and Lisa Messinger, The Painted City, Harvey Jones, Oakland Museum
1986 Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
- Creator:Willard Dixon (1942, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 54 in (137.16 cm)Depth: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Burlingame, CA
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Willard Dixon
Willard Dixon’s art has been shown extensively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, He has had over 40 one-man shows and numerous group shows. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has executed large-scale commissions for The California Supreme Court, The Oakland Museum and The Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. He received an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 2013, one of his portraits was included in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Represented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
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