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Francis Stillwell Dixon
“Birches in Winter”

Circa 1955

$595
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Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper of birch trees in winter along a fenced roadway with a quaint home in the background. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1960. The watercolor is in a solid mahogany frame under UV glass in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 14 by 11 inches. Provenance: A East Hampton, Long Island, New York collector. Born in Queens, Long Island, NY, Impressionist landscape and seascape painter Francis Dixon studied at the Art Students League in New York City under Impressionists Frank Vincent DuMond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts artist, Charles W. Hawthorne, and modernist Robert Henri. Having a good singing voice Dixon was an Army and Navy Song Leader for the War Department during World War I. From 1915 to 1917 was living and painting in Los Angeles, Carmel and Point Lobos, California. Dixon exhibited his California paintings at Folson Galleries New York City in 1917. Dixon continued to travel and paint, visiting Bermuda in 1923 and 1925, and Europe in the mid-1920s. In the 1930s he was living on West 55th Street in Manhattan with a number of other artists. He was a member of the Allied Artists of America (NY); Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; and the Salmagundi Club, NY. He exhibited at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1916); Folson Gallery (NY, 1917, solo); Society of Independent Artists (NYC, 1917-18, 1920-22, 1924); Salmagundi Club (NYC, 1917-1940, 1943, 1945); National Academy of Design (NYC, 1925); Studio Guild Galleries (NYC, 1937); Barbizon-Plaza Galleries NYC, 1939); Allied Artists of America (NYC, 1940); and Salons of America (NYC). Dixon’s solo exhibitions included Babcock Galleries (NYC, 1926 and 1927); Women's University Club (NYC, 1937); and Number 10 Gallery (NYC, 1941). High auction record for this artist is $22,705.
  • Creator:
    Francis Stillwell Dixon
  • Creation Year:
    Circa 1955
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Width: 4.5 in (11.43 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Southampton, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU14112010072

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