Willard Dixon
American, b. 1942
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.| Average Sold Price |
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Moonlit coast
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Moonlit Coast - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tomales Bay Morning
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tomales Bay Morning- The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View From the Window, Oil on Canvas
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of our finest living contemporary American Realist artists, Willard Dixon, has painted 'View From the Window; featuring green leaves, grey branches, purple lilac and orange turni...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Willard Dixon
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Park Here
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Park Here - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean with Crescent Moon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ocean with Crescent Moon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blue Shed
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Blue Shed no. 1', by one of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon, who has painted western landscapes for 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. This painting captures a quiet nature-scene through a golden pink haze that includes a stream, mountains, grasses, trees and rolling hills with a blue shed, adding a human and contemporary touch.
Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.
Signed front - Also signed, dated and titled Verso. oil on canvas - 52 x 60 inches. A glorious contemporary work of original art by Willard Dixon. Comes framed in a minimal hardwood strip frame. From Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Big Sky: Utah
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Big Sky: Utah - The painting was created in 2007 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Diptych 1 & 2 (in two parts)
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking diptych oil on canvas paintings (two paintings) by Willard Dixon. Evening Diptych 1 & 2. Painted in 2022, Each of the above paintings is 40 x 41 inches. Sold as a set of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Willard Dixon
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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